Earth Observation
FLOCK 1B-6
DecayedEarth ObservationLEO
Images and senses the Earth's surface for mapping, agriculture, defense or science.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 187 km
- Periapsis
- 177 km
- Inclination
- 51.6°
- Orbital period
- 88.13 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067FX
- NORAD catalog №
- 40454
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.086 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 16, 2015
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 16, 2015
- Time in service
- 16.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed