Payload
SPARTAN 201
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 25062
SPARTAN 201 is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 19, 1997 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 19, 1997 at 07:46 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- United Space Alliance
- Mission
- STS-87
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 284 km
- Periapsis
- 278 km
- Inclination
- 28.47°
- Orbital period
- 90.13 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,288.4 kg
- Dimensions
- 2.3 m span
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-073B
- NORAD catalog №
- 25062
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 5, 1997
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 5, 1997
- Time in service
- 16 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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