Payload
PSSC
DecayedPayloadLEO
PSSC is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 15, 2008 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 15, 2008 at 12:55 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- United Space Alliance
- Mission
- STS-126
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 150 km
- Periapsis
- 146 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 87.44 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 7 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2008-059B
- NORAD catalog №
- 33445
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.1053 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 17, 2010
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 17, 2010
- Time in service
- 1.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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