GPM Core Observatory
COSPAR 2014-009C · NORAD 39574
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Launch date
- 2014-02-27
- Status (SATCAT)
- operational
- Launch site code
- TANSC
- Owner code
- JPN
- COSPAR ID
- 2014-009C
- NORAD ID
- 39,574
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Period
- 93.23 min
- Inclination
- 64.97°
- Apogee
- 441 km
- Perigee
- 425 km
- Orbit center code
- EA
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It circles Earth every 93 minutes — about 15.4 orbits a day (CelesTrak).
- Someone born in its launch year (2014) turns 12 this year.
Worked out from this object's official values.