Payload
STS 85
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 7, 1997 at 02:41 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- United Space Alliance
- Mission
- STS-85
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 261 km
- Periapsis
- 249 km
- Inclination
- 56.99°
- Orbital period
- 89.61 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-039A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24889
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 39.0668 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 19, 1997
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 19, 1997
- Time in service
- 12 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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