ECHOSTAR 12 (RAINBOW 1)
NORAD 27852 · Payload · In orbit since 2003
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2003-07-17 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 4,328 kg
- Size
- 6 × 3.6 m · 26 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,138 × 36,222 km
- Inclination
- 6.4°
- Period
- 1455.9 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0010
- 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.