Designation | 21263 / 91032A |
Launch date | 14 May 1991 |
Country of origin | United States |
Mission | Meteorology |
Perigee/Apogee | 804/824 km |
Inclination | 98.6° |
Period | 101.2 min |
Equator crossing | 19:30 northbound |
Launch vehicle | Atlas E |
Launch site | Vandenberg |
Out of service | Nov 1998 |
Cause |
replaced
by
NOAA 15,
placed in standby. HIRS failure in May 1997 It was still used till Aug 2007: sending data directly to ground stations |
APT downlink freq. | 137.500 MHz (standby) |
HRPT downlink freq. | 1698.0 MHz |
Beacon | 136.770 MHz |