Lemur · Payload
LEMUR-2-NICHOL
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LEMUR-2-NICHOL is a Spire Global Inc. payload satellite, part of the Lemur constellation, launched on September 28, 2020 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 28, 2020 at 11:20 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Gonets-M27, Gonets-M28, Gonets-M29 & others
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 191 km
- Periapsis
- 187 km
- Inclination
- 97.78°
- Orbital period
- 88.27 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Spire Global Inc.
- Manufacturer
- Spire Global
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 4.6 kg
- Design lifetime
- 3 years
- Detailed purpose
- Meteorology, Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-068T
- NORAD catalog №
- 46503
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Constellation
- Lemur
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 2, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 2, 2025
- Time in service
- 4.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
