Space AtlasPORCUPINE 1
NORAD 1272 · Payload · In orbit since 1965
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1965-03-09 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Calibration
- Mass
- 4 kg
- Size
- 0.2 × 0.2 m · 15.2 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 898 × 927 km
- Inclination
- 70.1°
- Period
- 103.1 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0020
- 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.