Payload
CAT 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
CAT 1 is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on December 24, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 24, 1979 at 05:14 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 1 →
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Mission
- CAT 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 783 km
- Periapsis
- 102 km
- Inclination
- 17.72°
- Orbital period
- 93.44 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 1,602 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-104A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11645
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 5.09 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 27, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 27, 1989
- Time in service
- 9.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed