Payload
DISCOVERER 19
DecayedPayloadLEO
DISCOVERER 19 is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 20, 1960 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 20, 1960 at 08:32 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Discoverer 19
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 307 km
- Periapsis
- 179 km
- Inclination
- 83.4°
- Orbital period
- 89.36 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,050.55 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-019A
- NORAD catalog №
- 68
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 23, 1961
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 23, 1961
- Time in service
- 34 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed