Payload
ORFEUS-SPAS
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 24661
ORFEUS-SPAS is a Germany payload satellite, launched on November 19, 1996 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 19, 1996 at 07:55 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- United Space Alliance
- Mission
- STS-80
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 359 km
- Periapsis
- 346 km
- Inclination
- 28.47°
- Orbital period
- 91.59 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Germany
- Launch mass
- 3,541.13 kg
- Dimensions
- 2.5 × 4.5 × 4.5 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-065B
- NORAD catalog №
- 24661
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Radar cross-section
- 8.7299 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 7, 1996
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 7, 1996
- Time in service
- 18 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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