Payload
TACSAT 6
OperationalPayloadLEONORAD 39473
TACSAT 6 is a Operational Responsive Space (ORS) Office payload satellite, launched on December 6, 2013 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 6, 2013 at 07:14 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas V 501 →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- NROL-39 (USA-247)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 424 km
- Periapsis
- 335 km
- Inclination
- 120.46°
- Orbital period
- 92.14 min
- Orbit data fetched
- September 21, 2026 at 05:39 PM UTC
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Operational Responsive Space (ORS) Office
- Manufacturer
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.3 × 0.1 × 0.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-072M
- NORAD catalog №
- 39473
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Operational
- Decay / reentry
- September 21, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 21, 2026
- Time in service
- 12.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Operational