Space AtlasDIAPASON (D1-A)
NORAD 2016 · Payload · In orbit since 1966
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1966-02-17 · Hammaguir, Algeria
- Country / operator
- FR (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Geodesy
- Mass
- 19 kg
- Size
- 0.2 × 0.5 m · 1.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- MEO
- Perigee × Apogee
- 496 × 2,296 km
- Inclination
- 34.1°
- Period
- 113.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.1159
- 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.