COURIER 1B
NORAD 58 · Payload · In orbit since 1960
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1960-10-04 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 225 kg
- Size
- 1.3 × 1.3 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 962 × 1,208 km
- Inclination
- 28.3°
- Period
- 106.8 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0165
- 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.