Payload
D2B (AURA)
DecayedPayloadLEO
D2B (AURA) is a France payload satellite, launched on September 27, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 27, 1975 at 08:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Diamant BP4 →
- Operator
- National Center of Space Research
- Mission
- Aura
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 187 km
- Periapsis
- 184 km
- Inclination
- 37.13°
- Orbital period
- 88.21 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 109.02 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-092A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8332
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 1.9372 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 30, 1982
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 30, 1982
- Time in service
- 7.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed