DISCOVERER 6
NORAD 19 · Payload · Reentered 1959-10-20
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- 1959-08-19 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Optical imaging
- Mass
- 132 kg
- Size
- 1.3 × 1.5 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 171 × 469 km
- Inclination
- 84.0°
- Period
- 90.8 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0223
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).