Payload
FORMOSAT-1 (ROCSAT 1)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 25616
FORMOSAT-1 (ROCSAT 1) is a Taiwan payload satellite, launched on January 27, 1999 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- January 27, 1999 at 12:34 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Athena I →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Formosat-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 152 km
- Inclination
- 34.9°
- Orbital period
- 87.64 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Taiwan
- Launch mass
- 403 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2 × 1.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-002A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25616
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Taiwan- Radar cross-section
- 2.4189 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 21, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 21, 2023
- Time in service
- 24.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed