Payload
UFO 1 (USA 98)
NonoperationalPayloadGEONORAD 22563
UFO 1 (USA 98) is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 25, 1993 into GEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- March 25, 1993 at 09:38 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas I →
- Operator
- General Dynamics
- Mission
- UHF F/O F1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,093 km
- Periapsis
- 36,056 km
- Inclination
- 25.8°
- Orbital period
- 1450.82 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,032.71 kg
- Dimensions
- 3.39 × 7.04 × 7.04 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-015A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22563
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 8.6206 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational