Payload
VESTA-1
DecayedPayloadLEO
VESTA-1 is a Canada payload satellite, launched on December 3, 2018 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 3, 2018 at 06:34 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Falcon 9 Block 5 →
- Operator
- SpaceX
- Mission
- Spaceflight SSO-A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 196 km
- Periapsis
- 184 km
- Inclination
- 97.41°
- Orbital period
- 88.29 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Canada
- Launch mass
- 5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2018-099Z
- NORAD catalog №
- 43781
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 8, 2026
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 8, 2026
- Time in service
- 7.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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