Space AtlasMETEOSAT-1
NORAD 10489 · Payload · In orbit since 1977
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1977-11-23 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- ESA (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 348 kg
- Size
- 3.2 × 2.1 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,728 × 35,801 km
- Inclination
- 5.0°
- Period
- 1434.6 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0009
- 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.