Payload
STS 73
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 20, 1995 at 01:53 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin Space Operations
- Mission
- STS-73
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 267 km
- Periapsis
- 256 km
- Inclination
- 39.01°
- Orbital period
- 89.74 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1995-056A
- NORAD catalog №
- 23688
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 266.43 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 5, 1995
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 5, 1995
- Time in service
- 16 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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