GLOBALSTAR M088

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GLOBALSTAR M088 is classified as:

Globalstar

NORAD ID: 37740

Int'l Code: 2011-033B

Perigee: 1,420.1 km

Apogee: 1,421.4 km

Inclination: 52.0 °

Period: 114.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 7791 km

RCS: 5.735 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 37740U 11033B   20094.12050194 -.00000085  00000-0  10424-3 0  9994
2 37740  51.9752 340.6739 0000848  65.2154  87.2514 12.62266011402603

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC