KOMPSAT-1 (Arirang-1)
COSPAR 1999-070A · NORAD 26032
🇰🇷 Korea
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- Korea Aerospace Research Institute
- Launch date
- 1999-12-21
- Status (SATCAT)
- nonoperational
- Launch site code
- AFWTR
- Owner code
- SKOR
- COSPAR ID
- 1999-070A
- NORAD ID
- 26,032
Source:Korea Aerospace Research Institute · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Period
- 97.5 min
- Inclination
- 98.31°
- Apogee
- 642 km
- Perigee
- 636 km
- Orbit center code
- EA
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It circles Earth every 98 minutes — about 14.8 orbits a day (CelesTrak).
- Someone born in its launch year (1999) turns 27 this year.
Worked out from this object's official values.