ESSA 1 (OT-3)
NORAD 1982 · Payload · In orbit since 1966
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1966-02-03 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 138 kg
- Size
- 0.6 × 1.1 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 675 × 787 km
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- Period
- 99.3 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0079
- 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.