Payload
STS 86
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STS 86 is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 26, 1997 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 26, 1997 at 02:34 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- United Space Alliance
- Mission
- STS-86
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 381 km
- Periapsis
- 354 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Orbital period
- 91.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 113,165.51 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1997-055A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24964
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 6, 1997
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 6, 1997
- Time in service
- 10 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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