Payload
TOPEX/POSEIDON
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
TOPEX/POSEIDON is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 10, 1992 into LEO.
Loading…
Launch
- Launch date
- August 10, 1992 at 11:08 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 42P →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Topex-Poseidon, Kitsat 1 & S80/T
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,344 km
- Periapsis
- 1,331 km
- Inclination
- 66.04°
- Orbital period
- 112.4 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2,675.92 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1992-052A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22076
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 7.79 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational