Payload
UFO 9 (USA 140)
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
UFO 9 (USA 140) is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 20, 1998 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 20, 1998 at 07:19 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas IIA →
- Operator
- Lockheed Martin
- Mission
- UHF F/O F9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,436 km
- Periapsis
- 36,333 km
- Inclination
- 11.3°
- Orbital period
- 1466.73 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,529.24 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-058A
- NORAD catalog №
- 25501
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 12.1149 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational