Lemur · Payload
LEMUR-2-SOKOLSKY
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 41872
LEMUR-2-SOKOLSKY is a Spire Global Inc. payload satellite, part of the Lemur constellation, launched on October 17, 2016 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 17, 2016 at 11:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Antares 230 →
- Operator
- Orbital ATK
- Mission
- Cygnus CRS OA-5 (S.S. Alan Poindexter)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 179 km
- Periapsis
- 166 km
- Inclination
- 51.63°
- Orbital period
- 87.95 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Spire Global Inc.
- Manufacturer
- Spire Global
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
- Design lifetime
- 3 years
- Dimensions
- 0.3 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
- Detailed purpose
- Meteorology, Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-062D
- NORAD catalog №
- 41872
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Constellation
- Lemur
- Radar cross-section
- 0.0567 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 7, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 7, 2023
- Time in service
- 6.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed