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Wide-Field Infrared Explorer
Former NASA space observatory. Wide-Field Infrared Explorer was launched on March 5, 1999 aboard a Pegasus XL from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (May 10, 2011).
COSPAR 1999-011ANORAD 25646United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- WIRE
- Common name
- Wide-Field Infrared Explorer
- International designator
- 1999-011A
- NORAD catalog number
- 25646
- GCAT identifier
- S25646
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/360
Mission
- Mission type
- Astronomy
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- SMEX
- Owner
- GSFC
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Platform (bus)
- SMEX
Launch
- Date
- March 5, 1999 · 02:56 UTC
- Launch record
- 1999-011Success
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad RW30/12
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 539 km
- Apogee
- 592 km
- Inclination
- 97.53°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- May 10, 2011
- Last known active
- January 2004
- End of operations
- March 2008
Size
- Mass
- 182 kg
- Dry mass
- 182 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 187 kg
- Length
- 1.7 m
- Diameter
- 0.60 m
- Span
- 1.8 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q1891259 (CC0).