Space AtlasSATCOM 2
NORAD 8774 · Payload · In orbit since 1976
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1976-03-26 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Communications
- Mass
- 433 kg
- Size
- 1.3 × 1.3 m · 11.3 m deployed
- Orbit class
- GEO (geosynchronous)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 36,012 × 36,497 km
- Inclination
- 8.8°
- Period
- 1459.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0057
- 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.