Payload
TACSAT 3
DecayedPayloadLEO
TACSAT 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on May 19, 2009 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 19, 2009 at 11:55 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Minotaur I →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Mission
- Tacsat 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 157 km
- Periapsis
- 147 km
- Inclination
- 40.43°
- Orbital period
- 87.53 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 400 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2009-028A
- NORAD catalog №
- 35001
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.5134 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 30, 2012
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 30, 2012
- Time in service
- 2.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed