Payload
TACHELES
DecayedPayloadHEO
TACHELES is a Germany payload satellite, launched on April 1, 2026 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Launch System Block 1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Artemis II
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 70,247 km
- Periapsis
- 149 km
- Inclination
- 28.34°
- Orbital period
- 1406.14 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Germany
- Launch mass
- 20 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2026-069B
- NORAD catalog №
- 68539
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 2, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 2, 2026
- Time in service
- 1 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed