Payload
POPACS 1
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 39268
POPACS 1 is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 29, 2013 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 29, 2013 at 04:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Falcon 9 v1.1 →
- Operator
- SpaceX
- Mission
- CASSIOPE
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 257 km
- Periapsis
- 192 km
- Inclination
- 80.94°
- Orbital period
- 88.99 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-055D
- NORAD catalog №
- 39268
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.0186 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 26, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 26, 2026
- Time in service
- 12.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed