GALILEO 6 (262)

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GALILEO 6 (262) is classified as:

Galileo

NORAD ID: 40129

Int'l Code: 2014-050B

Perigee: 17,048.0 km

Apogee: 26,165.0 km

Inclination: 50.4 °

Period: 776.2 minutes

Semi major axis: 27977 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: August 22, 2014
Source: European Space Agency (ESA)
Launch site: FRENCH GUIANA (FRGUI)

GSAT0106 (GALILEO-FM6, GALILEO 6) is one of the 2 satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation network released on August 22, 2014 into the wrong orbit after launching aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana. Before the launch anomaly, officials expected the satellites to be operational by mid-November, joining four other Galileo demonstration satellites launched in 2011 and 2012 to expand the constellation to six spacecraft.

1 40129U 14050B   22019.16792399 -.00000085  00000-0  00000-0 0  9990
2 40129  50.4000 337.2878 1629348 119.5975 257.6464  1.85519999 50617

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC