Payload
ZACUBE-2
DecayedPayloadLEO
ZACUBE-2 is a French South African Institute of Technology/Cape Peninsula University of Technology payload satellite, launched on December 27, 2018 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 27, 2018 at 02:07 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1a Fregat-M →
- Operator
- Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
- Mission
- Kanopus-V No.5 & Kanopus-V No.6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 153 km
- Periapsis
- 137 km
- Inclination
- 97.05°
- Orbital period
- 87.38 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- French South African Institute of Technology/Cape Peninsula University of Technology
- Manufacturer
- French South African Institute of Technology/Cape Peninsula University of Technology
- Users
- Civil
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Optical Imaging/Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2018-111AH
- NORAD catalog №
- 43907
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
South Africa- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 24, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 24, 2024
- Time in service
- 5.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed