Payload
SATCOM K1
activePayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 12, 1986 at 11:55 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-61-C
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,995 km
- Periapsis
- 35,979 km
- Inclination
- 14.68°
- Orbital period
- 1446.36 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1986-003B
- NORAD catalog №
- 16482
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 7.6761 m²
- Status
- active
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