Space AtlasVANGUARD 1
NORAD 5 · Payload · In orbit since 1958
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1958-03-17 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Technology demonstration
- Mass
- 2 kg
- Size
- 0.1 × 0.1 m
- Orbit class
- MEO
- Perigee × Apogee
- 653 × 3,817 km
- Inclination
- 34.3°
- Period
- 132.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.1838
- 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.