MESSENGER
COSPAR 2004-030A · NORAD 28391
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launch date
- 2004-08-03
- Status (SATCAT)
- decayed
- Decay date
- 2015-04-30
- Launch site code
- AFETR
- Owner code
- US
- COSPAR ID
- 2004-030A
- NORAD ID
- 28,391
Source:NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Orbit center code
- ME
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It re-entered the atmosphere on 2015-04-30 (CelesTrak).
- CelesTrak lists Mercury as its orbit center — it worked at Mercury, not at Earth.
- Someone born in its launch year (2004) turns 22 this year.