GALILEO 5 (261)

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GALILEO 5 (261) is classified as:

Galileo

NORAD ID: 40128

Int'l Code: 2014-050A

Perigee: 17,035.3 km

Apogee: 26,177.7 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)

GSAT0105 (GALILEO-FM5, GALILEO 5) 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 40128U 14050A   25183.07541464 -.00000101  00000-0  00000-0 0  9998
2 40128  49.2562 287.7220 1633884 165.9526 199.2413  1.85519872 71823

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC