Payload
GALEX
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
GALEX is a United States payload satellite, launched on April 28, 2003 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 28, 2003 at 11:59 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 676 km
- Periapsis
- 671 km
- Inclination
- 29°
- Orbital period
- 98.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 280 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-017A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27783
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.1606 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational