Payload
SWAS
Backup / standbyPayloadLEO
SWAS is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 6, 1998 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 6, 1998 at 12:57 AM UTC
- Launch site
- WRAS
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 544 km
- Periapsis
- 531 km
- Inclination
- 69.9°
- Orbital period
- 95.39 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 281.47 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-071A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25560
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.8056 m²
- Status
- Backup / standby