Payload
USA 13
DecayedPayloadLEO
USA 13 is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 13, 1985 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 13, 1985 at 07:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Soyuz U →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Resurs-F1 17F41 56L
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 160 km
- Periapsis
- 148 km
- Inclination
- 37.03°
- Orbital period
- 87.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 80.81 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1985-114A
- NORAD catalog №
- 16328
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.6895 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 11, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 11, 1989
- Time in service
- 3.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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