Payload
CHALLENGER (QBUS 1)
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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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
- 157 km
- Periapsis
- 143 km
- Inclination
- 51.61°
- Orbital period
- 87.48 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067MA
- NORAD catalog №
- 42721
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 12, 2018
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 12, 2018
- Time in service
- 19.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed