Payload
AIM
DecayedPayloadLEO
AIM is a Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton University/NASA payload satellite, launched on April 25, 2007 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 25, 2007 at 08:26 PM UTC
- Launch site
- WRAS
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 318 km
- Periapsis
- 308 km
- Inclination
- 97.88°
- Orbital period
- 90.78 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton University/NASA
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corp.
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 192 kg
- Dry mass
- 197 kg
- Power
- 216 W
- Design lifetime
- 2 years
- Detailed purpose
- Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2007-015A
- NORAD catalog №
- 31304
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.5217 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 19, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 19, 2024
- Time in service
- 17.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed