Payload
SMM
DecayedPayloadLEO
SMM is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 14, 1980 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 14, 1980 at 03:57 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 3910 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Solar Maximum Mission
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 124 km
- Periapsis
- 124 km
- Inclination
- 28.49°
- Orbital period
- 86.97 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2,294.35 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1980-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11703
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 31.787 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 2, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 2, 1989
- Time in service
- 9.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed