Payload
FALCONSAT-3
DecayedPayloadLEO
FALCONSAT-3 is a US Air Force Academy payload satellite, launched on March 9, 2007 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 9, 2007 at 03:10 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas V 401 →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- STP-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 194 km
- Periapsis
- 183 km
- Inclination
- 35.41°
- Orbital period
- 88.26 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- US Air Force Academy
- Manufacturer
- US Air Force Academy
- Users
- Military/Civil
- Launch mass
- 50 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2007-006E
- NORAD catalog №
- 30776
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.463 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 21, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 21, 2023
- Time in service
- 15.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed