Space AtlasGOES 7
NORAD 17561 · Payload · In orbit since 1987
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1987-02-26 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 456 kg
- Size
- 3.7 × 2.2 m · 4.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,881 × 35,902 km
- Inclination
- 12.9°
- Period
- 1441.1 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0002
- 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.