Space AtlasUSA 8
NORAD 15543 · Payload · In orbit since 1985
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1985-01-24 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Signals intelligence
- Mass
- 2,715 kg
- Size
- 10.9 × 3.6 m · 30 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,381 × 36,445 km
- Inclination
- 12.6°
- Period
- 1442.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0126
- 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.