Payload
AURA
OperationalPayloadLEO
AURA is a Goddard Space Flight Center/EOS Data and Operations System payload satellite, launched on July 15, 2004 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 15, 2004 at 10:01 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 7920-10L →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Aura
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 690 km
- Periapsis
- 688 km
- Inclination
- 98.34°
- Orbital period
- 98.54 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Goddard Space Flight Center/EOS Data and Operations System
- Manufacturer
- TRW
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 3,112 kg
- Design lifetime
- 5 years
- Detailed purpose
- Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2004-026A
- NORAD catalog №
- 28376
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 9.4421 m²
- Status
- Operational