Payload
SAUDISAT 1A (SO-41)
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 26545
SAUDISAT 1A (SO-41) is a Saudi Arabia payload satellite, launched on September 26, 2000 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 26, 2000 at 10:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Dnepr 1 →
- Operator
- ISC Kosmotras
- Mission
- SmallSat Rideshare
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 619 km
- Periapsis
- 557 km
- Inclination
- 64.55°
- Orbital period
- 96.44 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Saudi Arabia
- Launch mass
- 10 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.2 × 0.2 × 0.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-057A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26545
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Saudi Arabia- Radar cross-section
- 0.097 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational