Payload
BEESAT-2
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 39136
BEESAT-2 is a Germany payload satellite, launched on April 19, 2013 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 19, 2013 at 10:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1a →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 184 km
- Periapsis
- 174 km
- Inclination
- 64.83°
- Orbital period
- 88.06 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Germany
- Launch mass
- 1 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-015G
- NORAD catalog №
- 39136
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Radar cross-section
- 0.047 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 1, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 1, 2024
- Time in service
- 10.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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