Payload
PICOSAT 7 & 8 [TETHERED]
DecayedPayloadLEO
PICOSAT 7 & 8 [TETHERED] is a United States payload satellite, launched on July 19, 2000 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Loading…
Launch
- Launch date
- July 19, 2000 at 08:09 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Minotaur I →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Mission
- Sindri
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 185 km
- Periapsis
- 164 km
- Inclination
- 97.75°
- Orbital period
- 87.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2000-042C
- NORAD catalog №
- 26904
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.0199 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 11, 2002
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 11, 2002
- Time in service
- 2.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed