Payload
RFTSAT
DecayedPayloadLEO
RFTSAT is a United States payload satellite, launched on April 17, 2019 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 17, 2019 at 08:46 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Antares 230 →
- Operator
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems
- Mission
- Cygnus CRS NG-11 (S.S. Roger Chaffee)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 153 km
- Inclination
- 51.61°
- Orbital period
- 87.66 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2.8 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2019-022G
- NORAD catalog №
- 44417
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 20, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 20, 2023
- Time in service
- 4.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed