Payload
STS 68
DecayedPayloadLEO
STS 68 is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 30, 1994 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 30, 1994 at 11:16 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-68
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 212 km
- Periapsis
- 199 km
- Inclination
- 56.99°
- Orbital period
- 88.6 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 100,267.59 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1994-062A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23285
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 11, 1994
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 11, 1994
- Time in service
- 11 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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