Payload
STS 51D
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 12, 1985 at 01:59 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-51-D
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 462 km
- Periapsis
- 337 km
- Inclination
- 28.52°
- Orbital period
- 92.55 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1985-028A
- NORAD catalog №
- 15641
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 19, 1985
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 19, 1985
- Time in service
- 7 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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