Payload
RBSP B
NonoperationalPayloadMEONORAD 38753
RBSP B is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory payload satellite, launched on August 30, 2012 into MEO.
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
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 23,719 km
- Periapsis
- 229 km
- Inclination
- 10.11°
- Orbital period
- 412.38 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
- 610.6 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.8 × 1.3 m
- Detailed purpose
- Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-046B
- NORAD catalog №
- 38753
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 6.3851 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational