Space AtlasNOAA 18
NORAD 28654 · Payload · In orbit since 2005
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2005-05-20 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 1,420 kg
- Size
- 4.2 × 1.9 m · 7 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 836 × 857 km
- Inclination
- 98.8°
- Period
- 101.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0015
- 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.