Payload
USA 141 (ATEX)
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 25615
USA 141 (ATEX) is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 3, 1998 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 3, 1998 at 10:04 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Minotaur C →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Mission
- NROL-8 (STEX)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 739 km
- Periapsis
- 730 km
- Inclination
- 84.99°
- Orbital period
- 99.5 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 29 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.8 × 0.1 × 0.8 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-055C
- NORAD catalog №
- 25615
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational