Payload
ASCA (ASTRO-D)
DecayedPayloadLEO
ASCA (ASTRO-D) is a Japan payload satellite, launched on February 20, 1993 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 20, 1993 at 02:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Uchinoura, Japan
- Launched by
- Mu-3S-II →
- Operator
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- Mission
- Asuka
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 146 km
- Periapsis
- 138 km
- Inclination
- 31.07°
- Orbital period
- 87.33 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 416.25 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-011A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22521
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 5.6368 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 2, 2001
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 2, 2001
- Time in service
- 8.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed