Weather
LEMUR-2-REDFERN-GOES
DecayedWeatherLEO
Observes the atmosphere and oceans for meteorology and climate monitoring.
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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
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 176 km
- Periapsis
- 167 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 87.92 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067LA
- NORAD catalog №
- 42059
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.0839 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 5, 2018
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 5, 2018
- Time in service
- 20.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed