Space AtlasSKYNET 4A
NORAD 20401 · Payload · In orbit since 1990
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1990-01-01 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- UK (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 763 kg
- Size
- 2.1 × 1.9 m · 16 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,091 × 36,204 km
- Inclination
- 12.5°
- Period
- 1454.2 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.