GLOBALSTAR M081

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GLOBALSTAR M081 is classified as:

Globalstar

NORAD ID: 37743

Int'l Code: 2011-033E

Perigee: 1,420.1 km

Apogee: 1,421.4 km

Inclination: 52.0 °

Period: 114.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 7791 km

RCS: 5.3338 m² (large)

Launch date: July 13, 2011
Source: Globalstar (GLOB)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

This is one of the six fresh spacecrafts for Globalstar's mobile communications satellite fleet deployed by a Russian Soyuz rocket, propping up the company's degraded two-way voice service for more than 400,000 subscribers around the world. The successful launch continued Globalstar's campaign to replace aging satellites launched more than a decade ago. The satellite, weighing 1,543 pounds (700 kg) at launch, will enter Globalstar's constellation circling a few hundred miles above Earth. Thales Alenia Space assembled the satellites in Rome and built their communications equipment in Toulouse, France. U.S.-based Globalstar Inc. provides mobile satellite telephone and data transmission services to customers in more than 120 countries.

1 37743U 11033E   17267.28380130 -.00000076  00000-0  15222-3 0  9999
2 37743  51.9952 181.8994 0000798 106.8882  36.4921 12.62267937287720

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC