Payload
SIMBA
DecayedPayloadLEO
SIMBA is a ESA/Royal Meteorological Institute, Belgium payload satellite, launched on September 3, 2020 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 3, 2020 at 01:51 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Vega →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- SSMS POC
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 322 km
- Periapsis
- 314 km
- Inclination
- 97.34°
- Orbital period
- 90.89 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- ESA/Royal Meteorological Institute, Belgium
- Manufacturer
- Royal Meteorologial Institute, Belgium/ESA
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-061H
- NORAD catalog №
- 46279
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Belgium- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 14, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 14, 2024
- Time in service
- 3.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed