Payload
SYNCOM 1
NonoperationalPayloadMEO
Syncom started as a 1961 NASA program for active geosynchronous communication satellites, all of which were developed and manufactured by the Space and Communications division of Hughes Aircraft Company. Syncom 2, launched in 1963, was the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite. Syncom 3, launched in 1964, was the world's first geostationary satellite.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 14, 1963 at 05:35 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Syncom 1
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 34,852 km
- Periapsis
- 28,702 km
- Inclination
- 26.73°
- Orbital period
- 1236.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 38.65 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-004A
- NORAD catalog №
- 553
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.0339 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational