Payload
FLTSATCOM 7 (USA 20)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 17181
FLTSATCOM 7 (USA 20) is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 5, 1986 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 5, 1986 at 02:30 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas G Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- FLTSATCOM F7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,342 km
- Periapsis
- 35,994 km
- Inclination
- 12.7°
- Orbital period
- 1455.61 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,245.79 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.44 × 1.27 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1986-096A
- NORAD catalog №
- 17181
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 38.9376 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational