Payload
ELSA-D TARGET
DecayedPayloadLEO
ELSA-D TARGET is a Japan payload satellite, launched on March 22, 2021 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 22, 2021 at 06:07 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M →
- Operator
- GK Launch Services
- Mission
- CAS500-1 & rideshare
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 159 km
- Periapsis
- 149 km
- Inclination
- 97.4°
- Orbital period
- 87.57 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 17 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2021-022AQ
- NORAD catalog №
- 51288
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 23, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 23, 2026
- Time in service
- 4.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed