Communications
VIASAT-1
Partially operationalCommunicationsGEO
VIASAT-1 is a ViaSat, Inc. communications satellite, launched on October 19, 2011 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 19, 2011 at 06:48 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced →
- Operator
- International Launch Services
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,795 km
- Periapsis
- 35,778 km
- Inclination
- 0.03°
- Orbital period
- 1436.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- ViaSat, Inc.
- Manufacturer
- Space Systems/Loral
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 6,740 kg
- Design lifetime
- 15 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-059A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37843
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 3.9811 m²
- Status
- Partially operational