Payload
AEROCUBE 12B
DecayedPayloadLEO
AEROCUBE 12B is a Aerospace Corporation payload satellite, launched on May 21, 2018 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 21, 2018 at 08:44 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Antares 230 →
- Operator
- Orbital ATK
- Mission
- Cygnus CRS OA-9 (S.S. J.R. Thompson)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 147 km
- Periapsis
- 144 km
- Inclination
- 51.6°
- Orbital period
- 87.39 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Aerospace Corporation
- Manufacturer
- Aerospace Corporation
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2018-046D
- NORAD catalog №
- 43557
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 14, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 14, 2023
- Time in service
- 5.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed