Space AtlasGOES 4
NORAD 11964 · Payload · In orbit since 1980
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1980-09-09 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 400 kg
- Size
- 3.7 × 2.1 m · 4.4 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,944 × 36,217 km
- Inclination
- 7.9°
- Period
- 1450.8 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0032
- 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.