Payload
SPAS 1
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 14142
SPAS 1 is a Germany payload satellite, launched on June 18, 1983 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- June 18, 1983 at 11:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Rockwell International
- Mission
- STS-7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 296 km
- Periapsis
- 291 km
- Inclination
- 28.46°
- Orbital period
- 90.39 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Germany
- Launch mass
- 1,486.62 kg
- Dimensions
- 4.8 × 1.5 × 4.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-059F
- NORAD catalog №
- 14142
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 24, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 24, 1983
- Time in service
- 6 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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