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INTELSAT 502

NORAD 12089 · Payload · In orbit since 1980

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Launched
1980-12-06 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
Country / operator
ITSO (Other / intl)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
945 kg
Size
6.4 × 2 m · 15.9 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
36,139 × 36,217 km
Inclination
11.2°
Period
1455.8 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.