Overview
Most Equatorial satellites are launched for commercial use (71.1%) and for the purpose of communications (57.9%).
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Insights from the Equatorial satellite dataset
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Apogee, Perigee & Period
Highlights on some of the commercial satellites:
Heaviest satellite launched by Singapore into space at 400 kg
Designed for earth observation (Optical Imaging), TeLEOS 1 is a commercial satellite operated by AgilSpace (Singapore).
Delivered via PSLV C29 (launch vehicle) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, it was launched into space on 16 December 2015 and orbits the Earth as a equatorial LEO satellite. TeLEOS 1 was constructed by ST Electronics Ltd. (Singapore).
TeLEOS 1 has a launch mass of 400 kg and is expected to have a operational lifetime of 5 years. It navigates with the COSPAR ID 2015-077D and NORAD ID 41169.
With an orbital eccentricity of 1.08E-03, the satellite's perigee, which is the point of the orbit closest to the Earth's center of mass, is 535km while its apogee, which is the point of the orbit farthest from the Earth's center of mass, is 550km. It takes 96 minutes to orbit the Earth at an inclination of 15 degrees to the equatorial plane of the Earth.
Second heaviest equatorial satellite launched into space at 650 kg
Operated by O3b Networks Ltd. of United Kingdom, O3b FM09 is a commercial satellite launched for the purpose of communications.
Delivered via Soyuz-ST-B (launch vehicle) from Guiana Space Center, it was launched into space on 18 December 2014 and orbits the Earth as a equatorial MEO satellite. O3b FM09 was constructed by Thales Alenia Space (France).
O3b FM09 has a launch mass of 650 kg and navigates with the COSPAR ID 2014-083D and NORAD ID 40351.
Using its self-produced usable power of 1500 watts, O3b FM09 takes 288 minutes to orbit the Earth. The satellite's perigee, which is the point of the orbit closest to the Earth's center of mass, is 8,063km while its apogee, which is the point of the orbit farthest from the Earth's center of mass, is 8,068km. Its orbit has an eccentricity of 1.73E-04.
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By Launch Vehicle: Cape Canaveral | Baikonur Cosmodrome | Guiana Space Center | International Space Station | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 | Satish Dhawan Space Centre | Taiyuan Launch Center | Vandenberg AFB | Xichang Satellite Launch Center | Boeing Satellite Systems | Airbus Defense and Space | EADS Astrium | Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems | Space Systems/Loral | Surrey Satellite Technology | Technical University Berlin | Thales Alenia Space
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