Payload
NIMIQ 5
OperationalPayloadGEO
NIMIQ 5 is a Echostar Corporation (entire payload leased from Telesat Canada Ltd.) payload satellite, launched on September 17, 2009 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 17, 2009 at 07:19 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Nimiq 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,798 km
- Periapsis
- 35,775 km
- Inclination
- 0.02°
- Orbital period
- 1436.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Echostar Corporation (entire payload leased from Telesat Canada Ltd.)
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 4,745 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-050A
- NORAD catalog №
- 35873
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Radar cross-section
- 94.7185 m²
- Status
- Operational