Payload
PAN SAT (PO-34)
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 25520
PAN SAT (PO-34) is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 29, 1998 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 29, 1998 at 07:19 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-95
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 299 km
- Periapsis
- 298 km
- Inclination
- 28.43°
- Orbital period
- 90.5 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 56.49 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.5 × 0.5 × 0.5 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-064B
- NORAD catalog №
- 25520
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.293 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
- Decay / reentry
- September 4, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 4, 2026
- Time in service
- 27.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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