Payload
SIRIUS-1
NonoperationalPayloadMEONORAD 26390
SIRIUS-1 is a Sirius XM Holdings payload satellite, launched on June 30, 2000 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- June 30, 2000 at 10:08 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Sirius FM-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 24,789 km
- Periapsis
- 24,764 km
- Inclination
- 59.38°
- Orbital period
- 912.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Sirius XM Holdings
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,800 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,570 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
- Dimensions
- 5.2 × 5.6 × 5.6 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-035A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26390
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 20.376 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational