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NORAD 16614 · Payload · In orbit since 1986

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Launched
1986-02-22 · Kourou, French Guiana
Country / operator
SWED (Europe)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Space science
Mass
260 kg
Size
0.5 × 1.9 m · 80 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
814 × 13,524 km
Inclination
98.8°
Period
261.3 min
Eccentricity
0.4694
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.