Payload
CORAL
OperationalPayloadLEO
CORAL is a Italy payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1998 into LEO.
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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
- 351 km
- Periapsis
- 339 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 91.44 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Italy
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067YA
- NORAD catalog №
- 67684
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Italy- Status
- Operational
- Decay / reentry
- August 1, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 1, 2026
- Time in service
- 27.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Operational