Payload
NIGERIASAT-1
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
NIGERIASAT-1 is a Nigeria payload satellite, launched on September 27, 2003 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 27, 2003 at 06:11 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Production Corporation Polyot
- Mission
- Mozhaets-4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 626 km
- Periapsis
- 568 km
- Inclination
- 98°
- Orbital period
- 96.62 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Nigeria
- Launch mass
- 80 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-042C
- NORAD catalog №
- 27941
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Nigeria- Radar cross-section
- 0.3209 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational