Payload
MICROSAT
DecayedPayloadLEO
MICROSAT is a Argentina payload satellite, launched on August 29, 1996 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 29, 1996 at 05:22 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- Interbol 2, Magin 5 & MuSat 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 180 km
- Periapsis
- 148 km
- Inclination
- 62.74°
- Orbital period
- 87.77 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Argentina
- Launch mass
- 33 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-050A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24291
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Argentina- Radar cross-section
- 0.3655 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 12, 1999
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 12, 1999
- Time in service
- 3.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed