COBE
COSPAR 1989-089A · NORAD 20322
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launch date
- 1989-11-18
- Launch site code
- AFWTR
- Owner code
- US
- COSPAR ID
- 1989-089A
- NORAD ID
- 20,322
Source:NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Period
- 102.46 min
- Inclination
- 98.9°
- Apogee
- 882 km
- Perigee
- 868 km
- Orbit center code
- EA
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It circles Earth every 102 minutes — about 14.1 orbits a day (CelesTrak).
- Someone born in its launch year (1989) turns 37 this year.