Payload
MORELOS 1
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MORELOS 1 is a Mexico payload satellite, launched on June 17, 1985 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 17, 1985 at 11:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-51-G
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,026 km
- Periapsis
- 35,998 km
- Inclination
- 13.95°
- Orbital period
- 1447.63 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Mexico
- Launch mass
- 641.23 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1985-048B
- NORAD catalog №
- 15824
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Mexico- Radar cross-section
- 6.2328 m²
- Status
- active
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