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SATCOM 3R

NORAD 12967 · Payload · In orbit since 1981

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Launched
1981-11-20 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
Country / operator
US (United States)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
577 kg
Size
1.3 × 1.3 m · 11.3 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
35,812 × 35,842 km
Inclination
12.1°
Period
1437.8 min
Eccentricity
0.0004
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.