Satellite · NORAD 13431 · COSPAR 1982-082A
ANIK D1 (TELESAT 6)
- Operator Telesat
- Constellation Telesat (Anik / Telstar / Lightspeed)
- Country Canada
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
12.12°
Period
24.0 h
1,438.5 min
Perigee
35,812km
Apogee
35,855km
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
- 1.6 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Telesat (Anik / Telstar / Lightspeed) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ANIK D1 (TELESAT 6)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 26 Aug 1982
- COSPAR launch id
- 1982-082
Objects from the same launch · 2
- DELTA 1 R/B13438Rocket bodyDecayed
- ANIK D1 R/B [PAM-D]13447Rocket 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
- 13431
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1982-082A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN6HMWXNXFRW6BABWBN
- Canonical slug
- anik-d1-telesat-6-13431
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.