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INMARSAT 5-F2
High-Speed Mobile Broadband (Global Xpress) · Inmarsat
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The second Global Xpress satellite, extending high-speed mobile Ka-band broadband to the Asia-Pacific region. Inmarsat-5 F2 serves the world's busiest shipping lanes across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, providing broadband to commercial vessels that keep global supply chains moving. Real-time navigation data, electronic charts, video conferencing with shore, and crew welfare internet — all delivered from this satellite to ships crossing the world's largest ocean.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,241–22,243 mi (35,794–35,797 km)
- Inclination
- 0.0°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 40384
- Int’l designator
- 2015-005A
- Launched
- 2015
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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