GLOBALSTAR M088

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GLOBALSTAR M088 is classified as:

Globalstar

NORAD ID: 37740

Int'l Code: 2011-033B

Perigee: 1,420.0 km

Apogee: 1,421.5 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   24327.79236071 -.00000087  00000-0  94113-4 0  9990
2 37740  51.9723 218.3033 0000976  79.0276 321.6005 12.62265415616333

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC