Space AtlasSBS-6
NORAD 20872 · Payload · In orbit since 1990
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1990-10-12 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 2,478 kg
- Size
- 10 × 3.6 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,118 × 36,180 km
- Inclination
- 12.7°
- Period
- 1454.3 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007
- 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.