Payload
OBJECT A
DecayedPayloadLEO
OBJECT A is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on September 17, 2024 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 17, 2024 at 10:50 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Falcon 9 Block 5 →
- Operator
- SpaceX
- Mission
- Galileo L13 (FOC FM26 & FM32)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 160 km
- Periapsis
- 154 km
- Inclination
- 96.75°
- Orbital period
- 87.62 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 520 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2024-166A
- NORAD catalog №
- 61179
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 26, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 26, 2025
- Time in service
- 162 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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