IUE
NORAD 10637 · Payload · In orbit since 1978
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1978-01-26 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Astronomy
- Mass
- 434 kg
- Size
- 4.2 × 1.4 m · 4.3 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 29,732 × 41,950 km
- Inclination
- 36.7°
- Period
- 1438.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.1447
- 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.