DFS 2
NORAD 20706 · Payload · In orbit since 1990
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1990-07-24 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- GER (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 1,419 kg
- Size
- 3.4 × 1.7 m · 15.4 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,964 × 36,014 km
- Inclination
- 14.6°
- Period
- 1446.1 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0006
- 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.