Payload
BIRD-RUBIN & SL-8 R/B
DecayedPayloadLEO
BIRD-RUBIN & SL-8 R/B is a Germany payload satellite, launched on July 15, 2000 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 15, 2000 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Production Corporation Polyot
- Mission
- CHAMP & MITA
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 135 km
- Periapsis
- 120 km
- Inclination
- 87.21°
- Orbital period
- 87.03 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Germany
- Launch mass
- 1,434 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-039C
- NORAD catalog №
- 26406
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Radar cross-section
- 8.6062 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 30, 2001
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 30, 2001
- Time in service
- 1.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed