Payload
TDRS 9
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
TDRS 9 is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) payload satellite, launched on March 8, 2002 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 8, 2002 at 10:59 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- TDRS 9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,165 km
- Periapsis
- 36,140 km
- Inclination
- 12.16°
- Orbital period
- 1454.83 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Satellite Systems
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 3,190 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,600 kg
- Design lifetime
- 11 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-011A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27389
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 11.5324 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational