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TELECOM 1B

NORAD 15678 · Payload · In orbit since 1985

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Launched
1985-05-08 · Kourou, French Guiana
Country / operator
FR (Europe)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
664 kg
Size
3 × 1.4 m · 16 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
35,768 × 35,777 km
Inclination
10.1°
Period
1435.0 min
Eccentricity
0.0001
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.