Payload
MAGSAT
DecayedPayloadLEO
MAGSAT is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 30, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 30, 1979 at 02:16 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout G-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Magsat
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 169 km
- Periapsis
- 161 km
- Inclination
- 96.75°
- Orbital period
- 87.79 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 179.39 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-094A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11604
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.4172 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 11, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 11, 1980
- Time in service
- 225 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed