Satellite · NORAD 6278 · COSPAR 1972-090A
ANIK A1 (TELESAT 1)
- Operator Telesat
- Constellation Telesat (Anik / Telstar / Lightspeed)
- Country Canada
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
6.00°
Period
1.0 d
1,457.1 min
Perigee
36,134km
Apogee
36,260km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 3.1 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Telesat (Anik / Telstar / Lightspeed) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ANIK A1 (TELESAT 1)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 10 Nov 1972
- COSPAR launch id
- 1972-090
Objects from the same launch · 2
- DELTA 1 R/B(1)6279Rocket bodyDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B(2)8312Rocket bodyDecayed
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 6278
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1972-090A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKCHWZSMKS978TWAP3R
- Canonical slug
- anik-a1-telesat-1-6278
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.