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HEOS-A1

NORAD 3595 · Payload · Reentered 1975-10-28

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Launched
1968-12-05 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
Country / operator
ESRO (Europe)
Object type
Payload
Purpose
Space science
Mass
99 kg
Size
0.8 × 1.3 m · 2.4 m deployed
Perigee × Apogee
21,119 × 201,687 km
Inclination
61.8°
Period
6704.0 min
Eccentricity
0.7666
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.