Payload
SCD 2
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SCD 2 is a Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) payload satellite, launched on October 23, 1998 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 23, 1998 at 12:02 AM UTC
- Launch site
- ERAS
- Launched by
- Pegasus Hybrid →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 752 km
- Periapsis
- 728 km
- Inclination
- 24.99°
- Orbital period
- 99.62 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
- Manufacturer
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 113.97 kg
- Power
- 70 W
- Design lifetime
- 3 years
- Detailed purpose
- Meteorology/Earth Science
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-060A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25504
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Brazil- Radar cross-section
- 0.4591 m²
- Status
- Operational