Payload
SME
DecayedPayloadLEO
SME is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 6, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 6, 1981 at 11:27 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2310 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Solar Mesosphere Explorer
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 179 km
- Periapsis
- 170 km
- Inclination
- 97.56°
- Orbital period
- 87.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 433.1 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-100A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12887
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 7.4635 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 5, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 5, 1991
- Time in service
- 9.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed