Payload
SIMPLESAT 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
SIMPLESAT 1 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 10, 2001 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 10, 2001 at 09:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- United Space Alliance
- Mission
- STS-105
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 135 km
- Periapsis
- 130 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 87.14 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 52 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2001-035B
- NORAD catalog №
- 26889
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.1784 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 30, 2002
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 30, 2002
- Time in service
- 173 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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