Payload
SPROUT
DecayedPayloadLEO
SPROUT is a Nihon University payload satellite, launched on May 24, 2014 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 24, 2014 at 03:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 202 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- ALOS-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 356 km
- Periapsis
- 339 km
- Inclination
- 98°
- Orbital period
- 91.48 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Nihon University
- Manufacturer
- Nihon University
- Users
- Civil
- Launch mass
- 7.1 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2014-029E
- NORAD catalog №
- 39770
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.17 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 12, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 12, 2024
- Time in service
- 10.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed