Payload
MEZNSAT
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 46489
MEZNSAT is a Masdar Institute of Science and Technology payload satellite, launched on September 28, 2020 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 28, 2020 at 11:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Gonets-M27, Gonets-M28, Gonets-M29 & others
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 161 km
- Periapsis
- 148 km
- Inclination
- 97.8°
- Orbital period
- 87.57 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
- Manufacturer
- Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
- Users
- Civil
- Launch mass
- 5 kg
- Design lifetime
- 3 years
- Dimensions
- 0.3 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
- Detailed purpose
- Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-068D
- NORAD catalog №
- 46489
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Arab Emirates- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 2, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 2, 2025
- Time in service
- 4.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed