ERS 17
NORAD 1460 · Payload · Reentered 1968-07-01
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- 1965-07-20 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Astronomy
- Mass
- 5 kg
- Size
- 0.3 × 0.3 m · 0.8 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 566 × 111,791 km
- Inclination
- 36.9°
- Period
- 2594.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.8891
- 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.