AS 1000

Class: Communications. Destination: Geosynchronous Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: GE Americom. Manufacturer: Astro Space.

Typical orbit: 35779 km x 36028 km at 9 degrees inclination. Mass: 463 kg (1,020 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Delta 3000.

AS 1000 Chronology

1975 December 13 - Satcom 1 - Program: Satcom. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Delta 3000. Mass: 464 kg (1,022 lb). Perigee: 35,875 km (22,291 mi). Apogee: 36,076 km (22,416 mi). Inclination: 12.80 deg. Period: 1,445.80 min.
Positioned in geosynchronous orbit over the Pacific Ocean at 135 deg W in 1976-1983; over the Americas at 119 deg W in 1983-1984; over the Pacific Ocean 139 deg W in 1984 As of 5 September 2001 located at 38.03 deg E drifting at 2.422 deg W per day. As of 2007 Mar 9 located at 137.85W drifting at 2.426W degrees per day.

1976 March 26 - RCA Satcom 2 - Program: Satcom. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Delta 3000. Mass: 463 kg (1,020 lb). Perigee: 36,016 km (22,379 mi). Apogee: 36,494 km (22,676 mi). Inclination: 8.60 deg. Period: 1,460.10 min.
Positioned in geosynchronous orbit over the Americas at 119 deg W in 1976-1984 over the Pacific Ocean 139 deg W in 1984-1985 As of 5 September 2001 located at 72.03 deg W drifting at 5.939 deg W per day. As of 2007 Mar 9 located at 127.82W drifting at 5.942W degrees per day.

1979 December 7 - RCA Satcom 3 - Program: Satcom. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Delta 3000. Mass: 463 kg (1,020 lb). Perigee: 8,306 km (5,161 mi). Apogee: 35,502 km (22,059 mi). Inclination: 8.10 deg. Period: 788.90 min.
Failed before reaching geosynchronous orbit.

Bibliography and Further Reading

McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited since Sputnik. Accessed at: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

USAF Satellite Database, USAF Institute of Technology, 1995. Accessed at: ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/.

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Accessed at: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.

JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

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