Payload
SSETI EXPRESS (XO-53)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
SSETI EXPRESS (XO-53) is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on October 27, 2005 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 27, 2005 at 06:52 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Production Corporation Polyot
- Mission
- Beijing-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 686 km
- Periapsis
- 666 km
- Inclination
- 98.31°
- Orbital period
- 98.27 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 77 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2005-043E
- NORAD catalog №
- 28894
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 0.3502 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational