MERIDIAN 3
NORAD 37212 · Payload · In orbit since 2010
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2010-11-02 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 2,000 kg
- Size
- 4 × 2 m · 10 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 1,965 × 38,395 km
- Inclination
- 63.4°
- Period
- 717.6 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.6860
- 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.