Payload
RHESSI
DecayedPayloadLEO
RHESSI is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 5, 2002 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 5, 2002 at 08:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- ERAS
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 172 km
- Periapsis
- 169 km
- Inclination
- 38.01°
- Orbital period
- 87.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 304 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-004A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27370
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.4653 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 20, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 20, 2023
- Time in service
- 21.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed