Payload
NSIGHT
DecayedPayloadLEO
NSIGHT is a South Africa payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 144 km
- Periapsis
- 139 km
- Inclination
- 51.61°
- Orbital period
- 87.32 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- South Africa
- Launch mass
- 2.5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067MF
- NORAD catalog №
- 42726
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
South Africa- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 25, 2020
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 25, 2020
- Time in service
- 21.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed