SKYNET 2A
NORAD 7096 · Payload · Reentered 1974-01-25
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- 1974-01-19 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- UK (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 217 kg
- Size
- 2.1 × 1.9 m
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 1,074 × 31,319 km
- Inclination
- 26.6°
- Period
- 562.3 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.6701
- 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.