Skylab
COSPAR 1973-027A · NORAD 6633
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launch date
- 1973-05-14
- Status (SATCAT)
- decayed
- Decay date
- 1979-07-11
- Launch site code
- AFETR
- Owner code
- US
- COSPAR ID
- 1973-027A
- NORAD ID
- 6,633
Source:NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Period
- 88.98 min
- Inclination
- 50.03°
- Apogee
- 227 km
- Perigee
- 221 km
- Orbit center code
- EA
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It circles Earth every 89 minutes — about 16.2 orbits a day (CelesTrak).
- It re-entered the atmosphere on 1979-07-11 (CelesTrak).
- Someone born in its launch year (1973) turns 53 this year.