Payload
MSTI 3
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 23868
MSTI 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on May 17, 1996 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- May 17, 1996 at 02:44 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Pegasus Hybrid →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 396 km
- Periapsis
- 223 km
- Inclination
- 97.08°
- Orbital period
- 90.72 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 198.22 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.1 × 1.4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-031A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23868
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.0434 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 11, 1997
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 11, 1997
- Time in service
- 1.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed