Space AtlasWESTAR 2
NORAD 7466 · Payload · In orbit since 1974
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1974-10-10 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 282 kg
- Size
- 1.6 × 1.9 m · 3.7 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,884 × 35,920 km
- Inclination
- 7.2°
- Period
- 1441.6 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.