Payload
ERS 16
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ERS 16 is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 9, 1966 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 9, 1966 at 08:15 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- RTS-1 1
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 398 km
- Periapsis
- 112 km
- Inclination
- 89.86°
- Orbital period
- 89.6 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-051C
- NORAD catalog №
- 2202
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 12, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 12, 1967
- Time in service
- 276 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed