Human Spaceflight
ISS OBJECT WJ
DecayedHuman SpaceflightLEONORAD 59559
Electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) are long conducting wires, such as one deployed from a tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetic principles as generators, by converting their kinetic energy to electrical energy, or as motors, converting electrical energy to kinetic energy. Electric potential is generated across a conductive tether by its motion through a planet's magnetic field.
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- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 179 km
- Periapsis
- 175 km
- Inclination
- 51.61°
- Orbital period
- 88.03 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- To Be Determined
- Launch mass
- 2 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.2 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067WJ
- NORAD catalog №
- 59559
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- To Be Determined
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 17, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 17, 2024
- Time in service
- 25.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed