Space AtlasUSA 21
NORAD 17506 · Payload · In orbit since 1987
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1987-02-12 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 800 kg
- Size
- 7 × 2.4 m
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 836 × 39,367 km
- Inclination
- 63.0°
- Period
- 714.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.7278
- 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.