Space AtlasGINGA (ASTRO-C)
NORAD 17480 · Payload · Reentered 1991-11-01
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1987-02-05 · Uchinoura, Japan
- Country / operator
- JPN (Japan)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Astronomy
- Mass
- 420 kg
- Size
- 1.5 × 1 m · 4.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 142 × 151 km
- Inclination
- 31.1°
- Period
- 87.3 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007
- 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.