Payload
KIPP
DecayedPayloadLEO
KIPP is a Kepler Communications payload satellite, launched on January 19, 2018 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 19, 2018 at 04:12 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 11 →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Mission
- Jilin-1-07 (Deqing-1), Jilin-1-08
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 178 km
- Periapsis
- 160 km
- Inclination
- 97.22°
- Orbital period
- 87.86 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Kepler Communications
- Manufacturer
- Clyde Space
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 3 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Internet of Things (IoT)
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2018-008C
- NORAD catalog №
- 43157
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 12, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 12, 2024
- Time in service
- 6.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed