Payload
ELISA W23
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
ELISA W23 is a DGA (Arms Procurement Agency)/Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) payload satellite, launched on December 17, 2011 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 17, 2011 at 02:03 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Soyuz STA Fregat →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Pléiades-HR 1A, FASat-Charlie (SSOT), 4 x ELISA
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 666 km
- Periapsis
- 665 km
- Inclination
- 97.84°
- Orbital period
- 98.06 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- DGA (Arms Procurement Agency)/Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- Manufacturer
- Astrium/Thales Alenia Space
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 120 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Electronic Intelligence
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-076C
- NORAD catalog №
- 38009
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 0.896 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational