Space AtlasGOES 9
NORAD 23581 · Payload · In orbit since 1995
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1995-05-23 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 2,105 kg
- Size
- 4.5 × 2.5 m · 26.9 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,180 × 36,229 km
- Inclination
- 14.0°
- Period
- 1457.1 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.