Space AtlasECHOSTAR 8
NORAD 27501 · Payload · In orbit since 2002
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2002-08-22 · Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 4,685 kg
- Size
- 5 × 2.8 m · 31 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,239 × 36,336 km
- Inclination
- 8.9°
- Period
- 1461.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0011
- 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.