Payload
GUNSMOKE-J 2
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 49014
GUNSMOKE-J 2 is a U.S. ArmyÕs Space and Missile Defense Command payload satellite, launched on February 20, 2021 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 20, 2021 at 05:36 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Antares 230+ →
- Operator
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems
- Mission
- Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 189 km
- Periapsis
- 178 km
- Inclination
- 51.58°
- Orbital period
- 88.16 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- U.S. ArmyÕs Space and Missile Defense Command
- Manufacturer
- U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command/TSEPT
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.3 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2021-013D
- NORAD catalog №
- 49014
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 26, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 26, 2023
- Time in service
- 2.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed