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Ciel-1
Retired geostationary communications satellite. Ciel-1 was launched on September 23, 1999 aboard a Atlas IIAS from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: renamed (Jan 1, 2008).
COSPAR 1999-050ANORAD 25913United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Echostar V
- Common name
- Ciel-1
- Payload designation
- Echostar 5
- International designator
- 1999-050A
- NORAD catalog number
- 25913
- GCAT identifier
- S25913
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/369
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Echostar
- Owner
- Echostar
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- SS/Loral
- Platform (bus)
- FS-1300
Launch
- Date
- September 23, 1999 · 06:02 UTC
- Launch record
- 1999-050Success
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad SLC36A
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- GEO/S
- Perigee
- 35,766 km
- Apogee
- 35,807 km
- Inclination
- 0.11°
- Status
- Renamed
- Status date
- January 1, 2008
- Last known active
- August 2009
- End of operations
- Aug 4, 2009
Size
- Mass
- 3,177 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,600 kg
- Length
- 3.1 m
- Diameter
- 2.40 m
- Span
- 25.0 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q16061377 (CC0).