Space Atlas

OAO 1

NORAD 2142 · Payload · In orbit since 1966

Launched

1966-04-08 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA

Country / operator

US (United States)

Object type

Payload

Purpose

Astronomy

Mass

1,769 kg

Size

3.1 × 2.2 m · 6.5 m deployed

Orbit class

LEO (< 2,000 km)

Perigee × Apogee

771 × 781 km

Inclination

35.0°

Period

100.2 min

Eccentricity

0.0007

Orbit data

Reconstructed from catalog orbit

Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).