Payload
SNAP-3
DecayedPayloadLEO
SNAP-3 is a US Southern Command payload satellite, launched on December 6, 2013 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 6, 2013 at 07:14 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas V 501 →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- NROL-39 (USA-247)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 166 km
- Periapsis
- 149 km
- Inclination
- 120.45°
- Orbital period
- 87.63 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- US Southern Command
- Manufacturer
- Naval Postgraduate School
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-072G
- NORAD catalog №
- 39468
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 23, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 23, 2025
- Time in service
- 11.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed