Payload
CELESTIS-03 & TAURUS R/B
DecayedPayloadLEO
CELESTIS-03 & TAURUS R/B is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 21, 1999 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1999 at 07:13 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Minotaur-C 2110 →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Mission
- Arirang-1 & ACRIMSat
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 178 km
- Periapsis
- 157 km
- Inclination
- 98.25°
- Orbital period
- 87.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 381 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-070C
- NORAD catalog №
- 26034
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.1892 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 5, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 5, 2023
- Time in service
- 23.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed