Payload
ZA-AEROSAT
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 42713
ZA-AEROSAT is a South Africa payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1998 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1998 at 06:40 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- Zarya
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 200 km
- Periapsis
- 183 km
- Inclination
- 51.62°
- Orbital period
- 88.32 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- South Africa
- Launch mass
- 2 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.2 × 0.1 × 0.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1998-067LU
- NORAD catalog №
- 42713
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
South Africa- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 2, 2019
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 2, 2019
- Time in service
- 20.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed