Space AtlasSARA
NORAD 21578 · Payload · In orbit since 1991
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1991-07-17 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- FR (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Astronomy
- Mass
- 18 kg
- Size
- 0.5 × 0.5 m · 10 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 693 × 698 km
- Inclination
- 98.1°
- Period
- 98.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0004
- 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.