Payload
MARISAT 2
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 14, 1976 at 10:44 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2914 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Marisat 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 37,001 km
- Periapsis
- 36,109 km
- Inclination
- 5.85°
- Orbital period
- 1475.53 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-101A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9478
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 20.8608 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational