Communications
INTELSAT 509
DecayedCommunicationsLEO
Relays voice, data, internet or broadcast signals between points on Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 9, 1984 at 11:03 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas G Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Intelsat 509
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,111 km
- Periapsis
- 242 km
- Inclination
- 28.71°
- Orbital period
- 98.29 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1984-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 15034
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 31.8287 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 24, 1984
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 24, 1984
- Time in service
- 137 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed