Payload
3CAT-2
DecayedPayloadLEO
3CAT-2 is a Spain payload satellite, launched on August 15, 2016 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 15, 2016 at 05:40 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- QUESS (Micius)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 143 km
- Periapsis
- 132 km
- Inclination
- 97.36°
- Orbital period
- 87.24 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Spain
- Launch mass
- 7.1 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-051B
- NORAD catalog №
- 41732
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Spain- Radar cross-section
- 0.1264 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 18, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 18, 2023
- Time in service
- 7.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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