Space AtlasCAT 4
NORAD 13011 · 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
- Technology demonstration
- Mass
- 661 kg
- Size
- 2.5 × 1.5 m · 4 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 249 × 25,068 km
- Inclination
- 10.5°
- Period
- 435.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.6521
- 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.