Payload
SKYNET 1A
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
SKYNET 1A is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on November 22, 1969 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 22, 1969 at 12:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta M →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Skynet IA
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,890 km
- Periapsis
- 35,685 km
- Inclination
- 0.43°
- Orbital period
- 1436.13 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 124.88 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-101A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4250
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 1.2 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational