Payload
GEOS-1
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 20, 1977 at 10:15 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2914 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Geos 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 38,366 km
- Periapsis
- 2,787 km
- Inclination
- 27.41°
- Orbital period
- 734.02 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-029A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9931
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 4.3042 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational