Payload
NIMIQ 1
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
NIMIQ 1 is a Canada payload satellite, launched on May 20, 1999 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 20, 1999 at 10:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Nimiq 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,314 km
- Periapsis
- 36,221 km
- Inclination
- 6.61°
- Orbital period
- 1460.73 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Canada
- Launch mass
- 3,646 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-027A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25740
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Radar cross-section
- 231.149 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational