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Vulcan CERT-2 Payload
Vulcan CERT-2 Payload was launched on October 4, 2024 aboard a Vulcan Centaur VC2S from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: left for deep space attached to another object (Oct 5, 2024).
COSPAR 2024-179ANORAD 61448United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Vulcan CERT-2 Payload
- Payload designation
- CERT-2 Payload
- International designator
- 2024-179A
- NORAD catalog number
- 61448
- GCAT identifier
- S61448
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1239
Mission
- Mission type
- Technology
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Centaur HCO
- Owner
- ULA
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- United Launch Alliance, Decatur
- Platform (bus)
- CERT2
Launch
- Date
- October 4, 2024 · 11:25 UTC
- Launch record
- 2024-179Success
- Rocket
- Vulcan Centaur VC2S
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad SLC41
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- EEO
- Perigee
- 735 km
- Inclination
- 26.70°
- Status
- Left for deep space attached to another object
- Status date
- October 5, 2024
- Last known active
- Oct 4, 2024
- End of operations
- Oct 4, 2024
Size
- Mass
- 1,500 kg
- Dry mass
- 1,500 kg
- Length
- 1.5 m
- Diameter
- 1.00 m
- Span
- 1.5 m
Deep space
- Deep-space catalog entry
- D01168
- Final central body
- Earth
- Phase start
- October 5, 2024
- Phase outcome
- Escaped to another body, attached · October 12, 2024
- Destination
- HCO
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0).