Space AtlasANIK A1 (TELESAT 1)
NORAD 6278 · Payload · In orbit since 1972
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1972-11-10 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- CA (Other / intl)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 250 kg
- Size
- 1.5 × 2.2 m · 3.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,131 × 36,260 km
- Inclination
- 6.1°
- Period
- 1456.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0015
- 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.