Payload
MDASAT-1C
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 13, 2022 at 03:25 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Falcon 9 Block 5 →
- Operator
- SpaceX
- Mission
- Transporter 3 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 195 km
- Periapsis
- 179 km
- Inclination
- 97.32°
- Orbital period
- 88.23 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
- Manufacturer
- Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 1 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2022-002BG
- NORAD catalog №
- 51038
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
South Africa- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 2, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 2, 2025
- Time in service
- 3.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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