Geostationary
GS-1
Commercial Communications · Commercial
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A commercial geostationary satellite providing communications services. GS-1 is part of the continuing diversification of GEO operators beyond the traditional large commercial satellite companies — smaller, specialized operators increasingly finding niches in the GEO arc serving specific geographic markets, frequency bands, or customer types that larger constellations don't address efficiently.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,238–22,254 mi (35,788–35,814 km)
- Inclination
- 3.0°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 56372
- Int’l designator
- 2023-060C
- Launched
- 2023
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.