Payload
SOLWIND
DecayedPayloadLEO
SOLWIND is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 24, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 24, 1979 at 08:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas F/OIS →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Solwind
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 141 km
- Periapsis
- 120 km
- Inclination
- 97.79°
- Orbital period
- 87.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 875 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-017A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11278
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 4.1395 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 20, 1992
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 20, 1992
- Time in service
- 13.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed