GALILEO 6 (262)

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GALILEO 6 (262) is classified as:

Galileo

NORAD ID: 40129

Int'l Code: 2014-050B

Perigee: 17,039.6 km

Apogee: 26,173.3 km

Inclination: 49.3 °

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   25165.00674830 -.00000048  00000-0  00000+0 0  9995
2 40129  49.2925 287.5365 1632335 166.0051 199.1672  1.85520403 73617

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC