Space AtlasGEOS-2
NORAD 10981 · Payload · In orbit since 1978
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1978-07-14 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- ESA (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 270 kg
- Size
- 1.3 × 1.6 m · 40 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,022 × 36,058 km
- Inclination
- 5.5°
- Period
- 1448.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0004
- 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.