Payload
GRACE-2
DecayedPayloadLEO
GRACE-2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 17, 2002 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 17, 2002 at 09:21 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Rokot/Briz-KM →
- Operator
- Eurockot Launch Services
- Mission
- GRACE
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 134 km
- Periapsis
- 131 km
- Inclination
- 88.97°
- Orbital period
- 87.14 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 475 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-012B
- NORAD catalog №
- 27392
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.5959 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 24, 2017
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 24, 2017
- Time in service
- 15.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed