MUOS 5

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MUOS 5 is classified as:

Military

NORAD ID: 41622

Int'l Code: 2016-041A

Perigee: 34,916.6 km

Apogee: 36,671.8 km

Inclination: 8.8 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42165 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: June 24, 2016
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: AIR FORCE EASTERN TEST RANGE (AFETR)

MUOS-5 is the fifth communications spacecraft for the Navy's Mobile User Objective System. Acting as cellphone towers from their geosynchronous parking spots over the equator 22,300 miles high, the MUOS satellites together generate global coverage and reach just miles shy of the poles. MUOS No. 5, the in-space spare of the system, will be placed over the Indian Ocean. MUOS serves a dual-provider of both voice traffic currently routed by the Navy's legacy generation, albeit aging, Ultra High Frequency Follow-On spacecraft.

1 41622U 16041A   18110.58519973 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    08
2 41622   8.7776 315.1169 0208134 199.9790 159.2060  1.00270000    03

Source of the keplerian elements: McCants