Space AtlasSKYNET 1A
NORAD 4250 · Payload · In orbit since 1969
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1969-11-22 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- UK (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 118 kg
- Size
- 1.4 × 0.8 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,682 × 35,893 km
- Inclination
- 0.5°
- Period
- 1435.8 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0025
- 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.