Payload
GFO
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
GFO is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 10, 1998 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 10, 1998 at 01:20 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Minotaur-C 2210 →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Mission
- GFO
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 330 km
- Periapsis
- 300 km
- Inclination
- 108°
- Orbital period
- 90.83 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 361.74 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25157
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.651 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
- Decay / reentry
- August 3, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 3, 2026
- Time in service
- 28.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Nonoperational