Space Atlas

HEAO 1

NORAD 10217 · Payload · Reentered 1979-03-15

Launched

1977-08-12 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA

Country / operator

US (United States)

Object type

Payload

Purpose

Astronomy

Mass

2,514 kg

Size

4.2 × 2.7 m · 6.3 m deployed

Orbit class

LEO (< 2,000 km)

Perigee × Apogee

157 × 157 km

Inclination

22.7°

Period

87.5 min

Eccentricity

0.0000

Orbit data

Reconstructed from catalog orbit

Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).