Payload
LARES
OperationalPayloadLEO
LARES is a Italy payload satellite, launched on February 13, 2012 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 13, 2012 at 10:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Vega →
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,450 km
- Periapsis
- 1,438 km
- Inclination
- 69.49°
- Orbital period
- 114.75 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Italy
- Launch mass
- 400 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-006A
- NORAD catalog №
- 38077
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Italy- Radar cross-section
- 0.0379 m²
- Status
- Operational