Payload
ROSAT
DecayedPayloadLEO
ROSAT is a Germany payload satellite, launched on June 1, 1990 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 1, 1990 at 09:48 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 6920-10 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- ROSAT
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 137 km
- Periapsis
- 126 km
- Inclination
- 52.98°
- Orbital period
- 87.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Germany
- Launch mass
- 2,468.78 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1990-049A
- NORAD catalog №
- 20638
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Radar cross-section
- 6.7973 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 23, 2011
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 23, 2011
- Time in service
- 21.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed