Space AtlasMARISAT 1
NORAD 8697 · Payload · In orbit since 1976
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1976-02-19 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 360 kg
- Size
- 1.6 × 2.2 m · 3.8 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,037 × 36,140 km
- Inclination
- 5.7°
- Period
- 1451.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0012
- 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.