Payload
GRIDSPHERE 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
GRIDSPHERE 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 7, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 7, 1971 at 12:11 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- SM-65F Atlas →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- LOADS 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 535 km
- Periapsis
- 485 km
- Inclination
- 87.59°
- Orbital period
- 94.82 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 4 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-067G
- NORAD catalog №
- 5401
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 4.4914 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 14, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 14, 1979
- Time in service
- 7.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed