Payload
TACSAT 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 16, 2006 at 12:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Minotaur I →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Mission
- Tacsat 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 163 km
- Periapsis
- 161 km
- Inclination
- 40°
- Orbital period
- 87.73 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-058A
- NORAD catalog №
- 29653
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.2862 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 5, 2011
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 5, 2011
- Time in service
- 4.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed