Payload
SAMPEX
DecayedPayloadLEO
SAMPEX is a United States payload satellite, launched on July 3, 1992 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 3, 1992 at 02:19 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout G-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- SAMPEX
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 140 km
- Periapsis
- 132 km
- Inclination
- 81.61°
- Orbital period
- 87.2 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 156.59 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1992-038A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22012
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.7577 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 13, 2012
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 13, 2012
- Time in service
- 20.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed