Payload
SAC-B & HETE & PEGASUS
DecayedPayloadLEO
SAC-B & HETE & PEGASUS is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 4, 1996 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 4, 1996 at 05:08 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 154 km
- Periapsis
- 115 km
- Inclination
- 37.93°
- Orbital period
- 87.18 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 422.89 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-061A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24645
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 3.9961 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 7, 2002
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 7, 2002
- Time in service
- 5.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed