Space AtlasOPTUS A1 (AUSSAT 1)
NORAD 15993 · Payload · In orbit since 1985
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1985-08-27 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- AUS (Other / intl)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 566 kg
- Size
- 6.6 × 2.2 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,921 × 35,943 km
- Inclination
- 13.3°
- Period
- 1443.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0003
- 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.