Human Spaceflight
PICODRAGON
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PicoDragon is a small satellite that followed the 1U type of CubeSat program built by the Vietnam National Satellite Center (VNSC) which belongs to VAST and operated in space for 3 months.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 165 km
- Periapsis
- 121 km
- Inclination
- 51.73°
- Orbital period
- 87.35 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067DB
- NORAD catalog №
- 39413
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Vietnam- Radar cross-section
- 0.053 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 28, 2014
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 28, 2014
- Time in service
- 15.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed