Payload
GUNSMOKE-J 4
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 48878
GUNSMOKE-J 4 is a Department of Defense/Army Space and Missile Defense Command payload satellite, launched on June 30, 2021 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- June 30, 2021 at 02:47 PM UTC
- Launch site
- WRAS
- Launched by
- LauncherOne →
- Operator
- Virgin Orbit
- Mission
- Tubular Bells, Part One
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 151 km
- Periapsis
- 141 km
- Inclination
- 60.65°
- Orbital period
- 87.41 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Department of Defense/Army Space and Missile Defense Command
- Manufacturer
- U.S. ArmyÕs Space and Missile Defense Command/TSEPT
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.3 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2021-058H
- NORAD catalog №
- 48878
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 30, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 30, 2024
- Time in service
- 2.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed