Payload
HCMM
DecayedPayloadLEO
HCMM is a United States payload satellite, launched on April 26, 1978 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 26, 1978 at 10:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- HCMM
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 139 km
- Periapsis
- 130 km
- Inclination
- 97.63°
- Orbital period
- 87.18 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 132.8 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-041A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10818
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States
- Radar cross-section
- 3.9023 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 22, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 22, 1981
- Time in service
- 3.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed