Space Atlas

N-STAR C

NORAD 27461 · Payload · In orbit since 2002

Launched

2002-07-05 · Kourou, French Guiana

Country / operator

JPN (Japan)

Object type

Payload

Purpose

Communications

Mass

1,645 kg

Size

3.3 × 1.5 m · 12.6 m deployed

Orbit class

GEO (geosynchronous)

Perigee × Apogee

36,128 × 36,192 km

Inclination

11.1°

Period

1454.8 min

Eccentricity

0.0008

Orbit data

Reconstructed from catalog orbit

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