Payload
LEASAT 4
activePayloadGEONORAD 15995
LEASAT 4 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 27, 1985 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 27, 1985 at 10:58 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-51-I
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,523 km
- Periapsis
- 36,465 km
- Inclination
- 10.08°
- Orbital period
- 1472.41 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,373.64 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø4.3 × 4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1985-076D
- NORAD catalog №
- 15995
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 16.6731 m²
- Status
- active
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