TELSTAR 1
NORAD 340 · Payload · In orbit since 1962
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1962-07-10 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 77 kg
- Size
- 0.9 × 0.9 m · 1.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- MEO
- Perigee × Apogee
- 943 × 5,642 km
- Inclination
- 44.8°
- Period
- 157.6 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.2431
- 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.