Payload
ELFIN-A
DecayedPayloadLEO
ELFIN-A is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 15, 2018 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 15, 2018 at 01:02 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 7420-10C →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- ICESat-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 149 km
- Periapsis
- 134 km
- Inclination
- 92.99°
- Orbital period
- 87.32 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2018-070E
- NORAD catalog №
- 43617
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 17, 2022
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 17, 2022
- Time in service
- 4.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed