ATS 6
NORAD 7318 · Payload · In orbit since 1974
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1974-05-30 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 1,357 kg
- Size
- 8.2 × 1.4 m · 9.1 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,187 × 35,442 km
- Inclination
- 1.9°
- Period
- 1411.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0031
- 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.