Payload
SAPPHIRE (NO-45)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 30, 2001 at 02:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- KODAK
- Launched by
- Athena I →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Starshine-OSCAR-43
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 792 km
- Periapsis
- 782 km
- Inclination
- 67.06°
- Orbital period
- 100.61 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2001-043D
- NORAD catalog №
- 26932
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.2786 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational