Space AtlasSYNCOM 1
NORAD 553 · Payload · In orbit since 1963
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1963-02-14 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 32 kg
- Size
- 0.4 × 0.7 m
- Orbit class
- MEO
- Perigee × Apogee
- 28,695 × 34,859 km
- Inclination
- 26.6°
- Period
- 1235.9 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0808
- 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.