Space AtlasESRO-1A (AURORAE)
NORAD 3459 · Payload · Reentered 1970-06-26
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1968-10-03 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- ESRO (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 85 kg
- Size
- 0.9 × 0.8 m · 2.4 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 159 × 180 km
- Inclination
- 93.6°
- Period
- 87.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0016
- 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.