Space AtlasGOES 1 (SMS-C)
NORAD 8366 · Payload · In orbit since 1975
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1975-10-16 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Meteorology
- Mass
- 293 kg
- Size
- 2.6 × 1.9 m
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 35,769 × 35,802 km
- Inclination
- 4.5°
- Period
- 1435.7 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.