Payload
RXTE (XTE)
DecayedPayloadLEO
RXTE (XTE) is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 30, 1995 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 30, 1995 at 01:48 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 7920-10 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 162 km
- Periapsis
- 154 km
- Inclination
- 22.97°
- Orbital period
- 87.65 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 3,007.93 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1995-074A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23757
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 6.8345 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 30, 2018
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 30, 2018
- Time in service
- 22.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed