Space AtlasGOES 2
NORAD 10061 · Payload · In orbit since 1977
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1977-06-16 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 294 kg
- Size
- 2.6 × 1.9 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,984 × 36,083 km
- Inclination
- 6.3°
- Period
- 1448.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0012
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.