Space AtlasHIMAWARI-1 (GMS-1)
NORAD 10143 · Payload · In orbit since 1977
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1977-07-14 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 280 kg
- Size
- 2.7 × 2.2 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,002 × 36,147 km
- Inclination
- 6.4°
- Period
- 1450.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0017
- 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.