Payload
APEX
DecayedPayloadLEO
APEX is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 3, 1994 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 3, 1994 at 02:38 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Pegasus →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Mission
- APEX
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 162 km
- Periapsis
- 140 km
- Inclination
- 69.83°
- Orbital period
- 87.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 258.67 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1994-046A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23191
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.2542 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 22, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 22, 2024
- Time in service
- 29.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed