Payload
KESTREL EYE IIM (KE2M)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 42982
KESTREL EYE IIM (KE2M) is a US Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- 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
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 148 km
- Periapsis
- 143 km
- Inclination
- 51.6°
- Orbital period
- 87.39 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- US Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command
- Manufacturer
- U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 45 kg
- Dimensions
- 1 × 0.4 × 1 m
- Detailed purpose
- Optical Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067NE
- NORAD catalog №
- 42982
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 28, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 28, 2021
- Time in service
- 22.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed