Payload
STARSHINE 3 & SO-43
DecayedPayloadLEO
STARSHINE 3 & SO-43 is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 30, 2001 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 30, 2001 at 02:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- KODAK
- Launched by
- Athena I →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- Starshine-OSCAR-43
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 138 km
- Periapsis
- 135 km
- Inclination
- 67.01°
- Orbital period
- 87.21 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 90 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2001-043A
- NORAD catalog №
- 26929
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.5445 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 21, 2003
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 21, 2003
- Time in service
- 1.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed