Payload
EARLYBIRD-1
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 24, 1997 at 01:32 PM UTC
- Launch site
- SVOBO
- Launched by
- Start-1 →
- Operator
- Strategic Rocket Forces
- Mission
- EarlyBird
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 150 km
- Periapsis
- 126 km
- Inclination
- 97.2°
- Orbital period
- 87.25 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-085A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25123
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.7326 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 27, 2000
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 27, 2000
- Time in service
- 2.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed