Space AtlasAUREOLE 3
NORAD 12848 · Payload · In orbit since 1981
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-09-21 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- FR (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 1,030 kg
- Size
- 2.5 × 2 m · 20 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 370 × 1,020 km
- Inclination
- 82.5°
- Period
- 98.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0460
- 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.