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Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer CubeSat (MinXSS)
Artificial satellite. Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer CubeSat (MinXSS) was launched on December 6, 2015 aboard a Atlas V 401 from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (May 6, 2017).
COSPAR 1998-067HUNORAD 41474United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- MinXSS
- Common name
- Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer CubeSat (MinXSS)
- International designator
- 1998-067HU
- NORAD catalog number
- 41474
- GCAT identifier
- S41474
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/801
Mission
- Mission type
- Astronomy
- Use
- Amateur / academic
- Program
- UCO
- Owner
- CU-LASP
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- University of Colorado-Lab for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 3U
Launch
- Date
- December 6, 2015 · 21:44 UTC
- Launch record
- 2015-072Success
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad SLC41
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 397 km
- Apogee
- 404 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- May 6, 2017
- Last known active
- May 6, 2017
- End of operations
- May 6, 2017
Size
- Mass
- 5 kg
- Dry mass
- 5 kg
- Length
- 0.3 m
- Diameter
- 0.10 m
- Span
- 0.3 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q26155813 (CC0).