Payload
FIREFLY
DecayedPayloadLEO
FIREFLY is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 20, 2013 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 2013 at 01:15 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Minotaur I →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Mission
- ORS 3 and STPSat 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 153 km
- Periapsis
- 151 km
- Inclination
- 40.48°
- Orbital period
- 87.53 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-064AA
- NORAD catalog №
- 39404
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.072 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 1, 2017
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 1, 2017
- Time in service
- 3.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed