Payload
CORVUS BC5
DecayedPayloadLEO
CORVUS BC5 is a Astro Digital payload satellite, launched on November 20, 2020 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 2020 at 02:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- RLLB
- Launched by
- Electron →
- Operator
- Rocket Lab
- Mission
- Return to Sender (Rideshare)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 175 km
- Periapsis
- 160 km
- Inclination
- 97.48°
- Orbital period
- 87.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Astro Digital
- Manufacturer
- Astro Digital
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 10 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-085C
- NORAD catalog №
- 46931
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 20, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 20, 2024
- Time in service
- 3.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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