Payload
ICESAT
DecayedPayloadLEO
ICESAT is a United States payload satellite, launched on January 13, 2003 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 13, 2003 at 12:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 7320 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Icesat
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 139 km
- Periapsis
- 129 km
- Inclination
- 93.97°
- Orbital period
- 87.17 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 959 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-002A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27642
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 3.3439 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 30, 2010
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 30, 2010
- Time in service
- 7.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed