Payload
SHIELDS 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 16, 2018 at 06:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- RLLB
- Launched by
- Electron →
- Operator
- Rocket Lab
- Mission
- This One's For Pickering (VCLS ELaNa XIX)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 141 km
- Periapsis
- 129 km
- Inclination
- 84.98°
- Orbital period
- 87.18 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- NASA Langley Research Center
- Manufacturer
- NASA Langley Research Center
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2018-104B
- NORAD catalog №
- 43850
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 12, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 12, 2026
- Time in service
- 7.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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