Space AtlasVANGUARD 2
NORAD 11 · Payload · In orbit since 1959
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1959-02-17 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Optical imaging
- Mass
- 10 kg
- Size
- 0.5 × 0.5 m
- Orbit class
- MEO
- Perigee × Apogee
- 552 × 2,895 km
- Inclination
- 32.9°
- Period
- 120.8 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.