Payload
ORCA-6
DecayedPayloadLEO
ORCA-6 is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) payload satellite, launched on February 20, 2021 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 20, 2021 at 05:36 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Antares 230+ →
- Operator
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems
- Mission
- Cygnus CRS-2 NG-15 (S.S. Katherine Johnson)
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 230 km
- Periapsis
- 219 km
- Inclination
- 51.6°
- Orbital period
- 88.99 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Manufacturer
- Blue Canyon
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2021-013E
- NORAD catalog №
- 49015
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 28, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 28, 2023
- Time in service
- 1.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed