Payload
SBSS (USA 216)
OperationalPayloadLEONORAD 37168
SBSS (USA 216) is a Strategic Space Command/Space Surveillance Network payload satellite, launched on September 26, 2010 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 26, 2010 at 04:41 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Minotaur IV →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 572 km
- Periapsis
- 461 km
- Inclination
- 97.73°
- Orbital period
- 94.95 min
- Orbit data fetched
- October 13, 2026 at 01:20 PM UTC
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Strategic Space Command/Space Surveillance Network
- Manufacturer
- Boeing/Ball Aerospace
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 1,031 kg
- Dimensions
- 3 × 2 × 2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2010-048A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37168
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 3.8408 m²
- Status
- Operational