Payload
SAGE
DecayedPayloadLEO
SAGE is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 18, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 18, 1979 at 04:18 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- SAGE
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 156 km
- Periapsis
- 146 km
- Inclination
- 54.91°
- Orbital period
- 87.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 145.69 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-013A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11270
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 5.0253 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 11, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 11, 1989
- Time in service
- 10.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed