Payload
FIREBIRD 3
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 31, 2015 at 02:22 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 7320-10C →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- SMAP, FIREBIRD II A, FIREBIRD II B, GRIFEX, ExoCube
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 169 km
- Periapsis
- 159 km
- Inclination
- 99.05°
- Orbital period
- 87.77 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2015-003B
- NORAD catalog №
- 40377
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.0713 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 1, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 1, 2023
- Time in service
- 8.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed