Space AtlasGOES 12
NORAD 26871 · Payload · In orbit since 2001
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2001-07-23 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 2,279 kg
- Size
- 4.6 × 2.5 m · 26.9 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,085 × 36,132 km
- Inclination
- 12.3°
- Period
- 1452.2 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.