Globalstar
NORAD ID: 37743
Int'l Code: 2011-033E
Perigee: 1,419.7 km
Apogee: 1,421.8 km
Inclination: 52.0 °
Period: 114.1 minutes
Semi major axis: 7791 km
Launch date: July 13, 2011
Source: Globalstar (GLOB)
Comments: 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.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 37743U 11033E 13142.85214205 -.00000103 00000-0 19458-5 0 5847
2 37743 051.9967 329.0945 0001326 102.9466 041.8671 12.62268200 87501
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for GLOBALSTAR M081
