Payload
PROTOSAT-1
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 61793
PROTOSAT-1 is a Rwanda payload satellite, launched on November 5, 2024 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 5, 2024 at 10:54 AM UTC
- Launch site
- RLLB
- Launched by
- Electron →
- Operator
- Rocket Lab
- Mission
- Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes (Protosat-1)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 484 km
- Periapsis
- 482 km
- Inclination
- 43°
- Orbital period
- 94.27 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Rwanda
- Launch mass
- 100 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.5 × 0.5 × 0.5 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2024-201B
- NORAD catalog №
- 61793
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- RWARwanda
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 23, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 23, 2026
- Time in service
- 1.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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