Space AtlasMARECS-A
NORAD 13010 · Payload · In orbit since 1981
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-12-20 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- ESA (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 549 kg
- Size
- 2.5 × 2 m · 13.8 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,804 × 37,836 km
- Inclination
- 11.6°
- Period
- 1514.8 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0118
- 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.