Payload
FORTE
OperationalPayloadLEO
FORTE is a Los Alamos National Laboratory payload satellite, launched on August 29, 1997 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 29, 1997 at 03:02 PM UTC
- Launch site
- WRAS
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 816 km
- Periapsis
- 781 km
- Inclination
- 69.95°
- Orbital period
- 100.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Manufacturer
- Los Alamos National Laboratory/Sandia National Laboratory
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 212 kg
- Dry mass
- 41 kg
- Power
- 55 W
- Design lifetime
- 3 years
- Detailed purpose
- Radar Imaging
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-047A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24920
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.3502 m²
- Status
- Operational