Payload
PARASOL
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
PARASOL is a France payload satellite, launched on December 18, 2004 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 18, 2004 at 04:26 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 G+ →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Helios 2A, Essaim 1-4, PARASOL, Nanosat 01
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 657 km
- Periapsis
- 636 km
- Inclination
- 98.5°
- Orbital period
- 97.65 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 110 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2004-049G
- NORAD catalog №
- 28498
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 0.6297 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational