Payload
AURORASAT
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 56312
AURORASAT is a Canada payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 164 km
- Periapsis
- 154 km
- Inclination
- 51.61°
- Orbital period
- 87.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Canada
- Launch mass
- 2 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.2 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067VD
- NORAD catalog №
- 56312
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 10, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 10, 2023
- Time in service
- 24.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed