Payload
EXOSAT
DecayedPayloadHEO
EXOSAT is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on May 26, 1983 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 26, 1983 at 03:18 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 3914 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Exosat
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 191,100 km
- Periapsis
- 109 km
- Inclination
- 75.12°
- Orbital period
- 5401.91 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 336.97 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1983-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 14095
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 0.31 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 6, 1986
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 6, 1986
- Time in service
- 2.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed