Payload
FAST
NonoperationalPayloadMEO
FAST is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 21, 1996 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 21, 1996 at 09:47 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 3,170 km
- Periapsis
- 345 km
- Inclination
- 82.95°
- Orbital period
- 121.72 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 178.39 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-049A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24285
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.3447 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational