Payload
STEP M4
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STEP M4 is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 22, 1997 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 22, 1997 at 01:13 PM UTC
- Launch site
- ERAS
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 162 km
- Periapsis
- 156 km
- Inclination
- 44.93°
- Orbital period
- 87.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 391.48 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-063A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25013
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.2883 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 31, 2001
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 31, 2001
- Time in service
- 3.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed