Payload
MICROSCOPE
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 41457
MICROSCOPE is a France payload satellite, launched on April 25, 2016 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 25, 2016 at 09:02 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Soyuz STA Fregat →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Sentinel-1B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 695 km
- Periapsis
- 694 km
- Inclination
- 98.24°
- Orbital period
- 98.66 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 303 kg
- Dimensions
- 1.38 × 1.04 × 1.58 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-025B
- NORAD catalog №
- 41457
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 1.0554 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational