Space AtlasCAT 3
NORAD 12546 · Payload · In orbit since 1981
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-06-19 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- ESA (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Technology demonstration
- Mass
- 266 kg
- Size
- 0.8 × 1.2 m
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 243 × 17,917 km
- Inclination
- 10.2°
- Period
- 318.6 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.5719
- 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.