Magellan
COSPAR 1989-033B · NORAD 19969
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launch date
- 1989-05-04
- Status (SATCAT)
- decayed
- Decay date
- 1994-10-14
- Launch site code
- AFETR
- Owner code
- US
- COSPAR ID
- 1989-033B
- NORAD ID
- 19,969
Source:NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Orbit center code
- VE
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It re-entered the atmosphere on 1994-10-14 (CelesTrak).
- CelesTrak lists Venus as its orbit center — it worked at Venus, not at Earth.
- Someone born in its launch year (1989) turns 37 this year.