Payload
RBSP A
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 38752
RBSP A is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory payload satellite, launched on August 30, 2012 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 30, 2012 at 08:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas V 401 →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- Radiation Belt Storm Probe A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 863 km
- Periapsis
- 109 km
- Inclination
- 9.55°
- Orbital period
- 94.32 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Manufacturer
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 609.4 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.8 × 1.3 m
- Detailed purpose
- Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-046A
- NORAD catalog №
- 38752
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 6.8945 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 11, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 11, 2026
- Time in service
- 13.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed