Human Spaceflight
DRAGONSAT
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DRAGONSat was a 2000s pair of nanosatellites that were to demonstrate autonomous rendezvous and docking (ARD) in low Earth orbit (LEO) for NASA. It was intended to gather flight data with a global positioning system (GPS) receiver strictly designed for space applications to gather flight data in the space environment. ARD is the capability of two independent spacecraft to rendezvous in orbit and dock without crew intervention. The mission failed when the DRAGONSats failed to separate from their carrier spacecraft.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 15, 2009 at 10:03 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- United Space Alliance
- Mission
- STS-127
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 157 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 87.69 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-038B
- NORAD catalog №
- 35690
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.023 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 17, 2010
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 17, 2010
- Time in service
- 245 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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