Human Spaceflight
ISS OBJECT XU
DecayedHuman SpaceflightLEONORAD 66908
Docking and berthing of spacecraft is the joining of two space vehicles. This connection can be temporary, or partially permanent such as for space station modules.
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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
- 209 km
- Periapsis
- 208 km
- Inclination
- 51.61°
- Orbital period
- 88.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- To Be Determined
- Launch mass
- 5 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.3 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067XU
- NORAD catalog №
- 66908
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- To Be Determined
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 8, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 8, 2026
- Time in service
- 27.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed