Payload
LDEF
DecayedPayloadLEO
LDEF is a United States payload satellite, launched on April 6, 1984 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 6, 1984 at 01:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-41-C
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 336 km
- Periapsis
- 332 km
- Inclination
- 28.5°
- Orbital period
- 91.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 9,705 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1984-034B
- NORAD catalog №
- 14898
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 45.1865 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 20, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 20, 1990
- Time in service
- 5.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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