ERS 21 (OV5-4)
NORAD 3430 · Payload · In orbit since 1968
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1968-09-26 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Technology demonstration
- Mass
- 13 kg
- Size
- 0.3 × 0.3 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,775 × 35,785 km
- Inclination
- 3.0°
- Period
- 1435.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0001
- 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.