Payload
MICROSAT 3
DecayedPayloadLEO
MICROSAT 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on July 17, 1991 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 17, 1991 at 05:33 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Pegasus HAPS →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 173 km
- Periapsis
- 168 km
- Inclination
- 81.96°
- Orbital period
- 87.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 21.8 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1991-051C
- NORAD catalog №
- 21582
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.0689 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 24, 1992
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 24, 1992
- Time in service
- 191 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed