MUOS 5

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MUOS 5 is classified as:

Military

NORAD ID: 41622

Int'l Code: 2016-041A

Perigee: 34,947.9 km

Apogee: 36,639.4 km

Inclination: 2.6 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42164 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   25340.47693669 -.00000129  00000-0  00000-0 0  9994
2 41622   2.6287 298.7306 0200587 262.6209 300.9402  1.00272017 35158

Source of the keplerian elements: McCants