Space AtlasTD-1A
NORAD 5879 · Payload · Reentered 1980-01-09
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1972-03-12 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- ESRO (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Astronomy
- Mass
- 460 kg
- Size
- 2.1 × 1 m · 4.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 241 × 246 km
- Inclination
- 97.5°
- Period
- 89.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0004
- 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.