Payload
SUMBANDILA (SO-67)
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SUMBANDILA (SO-67) is a South Africa payload satellite, launched on September 17, 2009 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 17, 2009 at 03:55 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Meteor-M 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 181 km
- Periapsis
- 173 km
- Inclination
- 96.92°
- Orbital period
- 88.03 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- South Africa
- Launch mass
- 81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-049F
- NORAD catalog №
- 35870
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
South Africa- Radar cross-section
- 0.3494 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 10, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 10, 2021
- Time in service
- 12.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed