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DFS 1

NORAD 20041 · Payload · In orbit since 1989

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Launched
1989-06-05 · Kourou, French Guiana
Country / operator
GER (Europe)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Communications
Mass
1,415 kg
Size
3.4 × 1.7 m · 15.4 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
35,622 × 35,729 km
Inclination
14.0°
Period
1430.1 min
Eccentricity
0.0013
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.