Payload
TRACE
DecayedPayloadLEO
TRACE is a United States payload satellite, launched on April 2, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 2, 1998 at 02:42 AM UTC
- Launch site
- WRAS
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 151 km
- Periapsis
- 136 km
- Inclination
- 97.38°
- Orbital period
- 87.36 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 211.1 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-020A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25280
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.5228 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 18, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 18, 2025
- Time in service
- 27.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed