Payload
UOSAT 1 (UO-9)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 12888
UOSAT 1 (UO-9) is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on October 6, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 6, 1981 at 11:27 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2310 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Solar Mesosphere Explorer
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 147 km
- Periapsis
- 135 km
- Inclination
- 97.51°
- Orbital period
- 87.31 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 51.54 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.42 × 0.42 × 0.42 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-100B
- NORAD catalog №
- 12888
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 1.5406 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 13, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 13, 1989
- Time in service
- 8.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed