Payload
AEROCUBE 5A
DecayedPayloadLEO
AEROCUBE 5A is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 6, 2013 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 6, 2013 at 07:14 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas V 501 →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- NROL-39 (USA-247)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 220 km
- Periapsis
- 197 km
- Inclination
- 120.44°
- Orbital period
- 88.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-072D
- NORAD catalog №
- 39465
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 16, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 16, 2023
- Time in service
- 9.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed