USA 171
NORAD 27937 · Payload · In orbit since 2003
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- 2003-09-09 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Signals intelligence
- Mass
- 5,000 kg
- Size
- 6 × 4 m · 30 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,593 × 35,979 km
- Inclination
- 15.0°
- Period
- 1435.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0046
- 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.