Payload
ANIK A1 (TELESAT 1)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 10, 1972 at 01:14 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 1914 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Anik A1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,259 km
- Periapsis
- 36,134 km
- Inclination
- 6.21°
- Orbital period
- 1457.09 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-090A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6278
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Radar cross-section
- 3.1376 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational