Geostationary
INTELSAT 906 (IS-906)
Pacific Commercial Communications · Intelsat
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An Intelsat 900-series satellite at the Pacific position, connecting Asia-Pacific markets with the Americas. IS-906 carries the transpacific internet and media traffic that links California to Asia — the backbone connections that carry a significant fraction of internet traffic between the world's two largest economies when undersea cables become congested or fail.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,233–22,250 mi (35,781–35,808 km)
- Inclination
- 6.0°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 27513
- Int’l designator
- 2002-041A
- Launched
- 2002
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.