Communications
INTELSAT 501
NonoperationalCommunicationsGEONORAD 12474
INTELSAT 501 is a Intelsat communications satellite, launched on May 23, 1981 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- May 23, 1981 at 10:42 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Intelsat 501
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,200 km
- Periapsis
- 36,180 km
- Inclination
- 10.98°
- Orbital period
- 1456.76 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Intelsat
- Launch mass
- 1,002.97 kg
- Dimensions
- 6.4 × 2 × 2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-050A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12474
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Intelsat- Radar cross-section
- 3.981 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational