Payload
ALPHA
NonoperationalPayloadMEO
ALPHA is a Italy payload satellite, launched on July 13, 2022 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 13, 2022 at 01:13 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Vega-C →
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Mission
- LARES-2 (Maiden flight)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 6,134 km
- Periapsis
- 5,549 km
- Inclination
- 70.19°
- Orbital period
- 224.06 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Italy
- Launch mass
- 1 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2022-080F
- NORAD catalog №
- 53110
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Italy- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational