Payload
AEROCUBE 8A
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 40659
AEROCUBE 8A is a United States payload satellite, launched on May 20, 2015 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- May 20, 2015 at 03:05 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas V 501 →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- OTV-4 (X-37B) (USA 261) ( AFSPC-5) & ULTRASat cubesat deployer
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 178 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 54.98°
- Orbital period
- 87.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.15 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2015-025J
- NORAD catalog №
- 40659
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 11, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 11, 2021
- Time in service
- 6.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed