Space AtlasGEOS-1
NORAD 9931 · Payload · In orbit since 1977
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1977-04-20 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- ESA (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 267 kg
- Size
- 1.3 × 1.6 m · 40 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 2,777 × 38,376 km
- Inclination
- 27.5°
- Period
- 733.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.6605
- 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.