Space AtlasHIPPARCOS
NORAD 20169 · Payload · In orbit since 1989
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1989-08-08 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- ESA (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Astronomy
- Mass
- 610 kg
- Size
- 3.5 × 2.5 m · 5.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 492 × 35,748 km
- Inclination
- 7.0°
- Period
- 635.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.7198
- 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.