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Sfera
Small passive satellite deployed during a spacewalk from the ISS in August 2012. Sfera was launched on August 1, 2012 aboard a Soyuz-U-PVB from Baikonur. Latest status in GCAT: transferred to another vehicle (Aug 3, 2012).
COSPAR 1998-067CMNORAD 38751Russia
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Sfera-53
- Common name
- Sfera
- Payload designation
- Vektor-T
- International designator
- 1998-067CM
- NORAD catalog number
- 38751
- GCAT identifier
- S38751
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/661
Mission
- Mission type
- Calibration
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- DOS SS
- Owner
- RKKE
- Country
- Russia
- Builder
- RKK Energiya
- Platform (bus)
- Sfera-53
Launch
- Date
- August 1, 2012 · 19:35 UTC
- Launch record
- 2012-042Success
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Spaceport
- Baikonur · pad LC1
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 401 km
- Apogee
- 403 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Status
- Transferred to another vehicle
- Status date
- August 3, 2012
- Last known active
- Aug 1, 2012
- End of operations
- Aug 1, 2012
Size
- Mass
- 8 kg
- Dry mass
- 8 kg
- Length
- 0.5 m
- Diameter
- 0.50 m
- Span
- 0.5 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q118377 (CC0).