Payload
SKIPPER
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SKIPPER is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 28, 1995 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 28, 1995 at 06:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Progress Rocket Space Center
- Mission
- IRS-1C & Skipper
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 809 km
- Periapsis
- 800 km
- Inclination
- 98.74°
- Orbital period
- 100.97 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 227.95 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1995-072B
- NORAD catalog №
- 23752
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.6387 m²
- Status
- active