Space AtlasANIK A2 (TELESAT 2)
NORAD 6437 · Payload · In orbit since 1973
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1973-04-20 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- CA (Other / intl)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 254 kg
- Size
- 1.5 × 2.2 m · 3.5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,877 × 35,961 km
- Inclination
- 6.8°
- Period
- 1442.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0010
- 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.