USA 162

NORAD 26948 · Payload · In orbit since 2001

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Launched: 2001-10-11 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
Country / operator: US (United States)
Object type: Payload
Purpose: Communications
Mass: 3,500 kg
Size: 6 × 2 m · 26 m deployed
Orbit class: GEO (geosynchronous)
Perigee × Apogee: 35,769 × 35,804 km
Inclination: 13.8°
Period: 1435.7 min
Eccentricity: 0.0004
Orbit data: Reconstructed from catalog orbit

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