Payload
STARS-C
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 41895
STARS-C is a Japan payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 149 km
- Inclination
- 51.65°
- Orbital period
- 87.61 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Japan
- Launch mass
- 3 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067KR
- NORAD catalog №
- 41895
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 0.0384 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 3, 2018
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 3, 2018
- Time in service
- 19.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed