Payload
TECHEDSAT
DecayedPayloadLEO
TECHEDSAT is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 176 km
- Periapsis
- 162 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Orbital period
- 87.87 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067CQ
- NORAD catalog №
- 38854
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.05 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 5, 2013
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 5, 2013
- Time in service
- 14.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed