Space AtlasSATCOM K2
NORAD 16276 · Payload · In orbit since 1985
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1985-11-27 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 966 kg
- Size
- 2.1 × 1.5 m · 20 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,933 × 36,010 km
- Inclination
- 14.7°
- Period
- 1445.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0009
- 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.