Payload
CATSAT-1
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 44033
CATSAT-1 is a United States 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
- 209 km
- Periapsis
- 197 km
- Inclination
- 51.63°
- Orbital period
- 88.55 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.3 × 0.1 × 0.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067PZ
- NORAD catalog №
- 44033
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 13, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 13, 2021
- Time in service
- 22.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed