Payload
ORBVIEW 3
DecayedPayloadLEO
ORBVIEW 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 26, 2003 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 26, 2003 at 06:53 PM UTC
- Launch site
- WRAS
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 294 km
- Periapsis
- 166 km
- Inclination
- 96.96°
- Orbital period
- 89.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 304 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2003-030A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27838
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.907 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 13, 2011
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 13, 2011
- Time in service
- 7.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed