Payload
TDRS 5
OperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 2, 1991 at 03:02 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-43
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,813 km
- Periapsis
- 35,760 km
- Inclination
- 14.07°
- Orbital period
- 1436.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- SES S.A.
- Manufacturer
- TRW Defense and Space Systems Group
- Users
- Government/Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3,180 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,600 kg
- Power
- 1,800 W
- Design lifetime
- 10 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-054B
- NORAD catalog №
- 21639
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 20.8608 m²
- Status
- Operational
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