Payload
MEGSAT
DecayedPayloadLEO
MEGSAT is a Italy payload satellite, launched on April 28, 1999 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 28, 1999 at 08:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Kapustin Yar, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Production Corporation Polyot
- Mission
- ABRIXAS & MegSat 0
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 145 km
- Periapsis
- 142 km
- Inclination
- 48.39°
- Orbital period
- 87.35 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Italy
- Launch mass
- 35 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1999-022B
- NORAD catalog №
- 25722
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Italy- Radar cross-section
- 0.5724 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 4, 2003
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 4, 2003
- Time in service
- 4.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed