Space AtlasESIAFI 1 (COMSTAR 4)
NORAD 12309 · Payload · In orbit since 1981
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-02-21 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 748 kg
- Size
- 3.5 × 2.4 m · 6.3 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,773 × 35,797 km
- Inclination
- 8.6°
- Period
- 1435.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0003
- 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.