Payload
ACTS
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
ACTS is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 12, 1993 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 12, 1993 at 11:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Lockheed Space Operations Company
- Mission
- STS-51
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,016 km
- Periapsis
- 35,557 km
- Inclination
- 14.57°
- Orbital period
- 1436.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,460.85 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1993-058B
- NORAD catalog №
- 22796
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 21.9084 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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