Payload
RED-EYE 2 (MERLOT)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 45800
RED-EYE 2 (MERLOT) is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 159 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 87.71 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 50 kg
- Dimensions
- 1 × 1 × 1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067RM
- NORAD catalog №
- 45800
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 16, 2022
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 16, 2022
- Time in service
- 24.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed