Payload
BEPPOSAX
DecayedPayloadLEO
BEPPOSAX is a Italy payload satellite, launched on April 30, 1996 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 30, 1996 at 04:31 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas I →
- Operator
- General Dynamics
- Mission
- BeppoSAX
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 169 km
- Periapsis
- 169 km
- Inclination
- 3.95°
- Orbital period
- 87.87 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Italy
- Launch mass
- 1,387.51 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-027A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23857
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Italy- Radar cross-section
- 1.5848 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 29, 2003
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 29, 2003
- Time in service
- 7.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed