Payload
CELESTIS-01 & PEGASUS R/B
DecayedPayloadLEO
CELESTIS-01 & PEGASUS R/B is a United States payload satellite, launched on April 21, 1997 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 21, 1997 at 11:59 AM UTC
- Launch site
- CAS
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 169 km
- Periapsis
- 163 km
- Inclination
- 150.94°
- Orbital period
- 87.81 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 124.88 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-018B
- NORAD catalog №
- 24780
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.7788 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 21, 2002
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 21, 2002
- Time in service
- 5.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed