Payload
LDREX-2
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 13, 2006 at 08:56 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- DirecTV-9S, Optus D1, LDREX-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 427 km
- Periapsis
- 119 km
- Inclination
- 7.19°
- Orbital period
- 89.97 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2006-043C
- NORAD catalog №
- 29496
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Japan- Radar cross-section
- 4.5525 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 30, 2010
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 30, 2010
- Time in service
- 4.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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