Payload
SIRIUS-2
NonoperationalPayloadMEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 5, 2000 at 09:43 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/DM-2M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Sirius FM-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 24,502 km
- Periapsis
- 23,249 km
- Inclination
- 67.1°
- Orbital period
- 872.82 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Sirius XM Holdings
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,792 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,570 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26483
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 16.3199 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational