Payload
HITCH HIKER 2
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HITCH HIKER 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 29, 1963 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 29, 1963 at 09:19 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- KH-5 10
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 178 km
- Periapsis
- 164 km
- Inclination
- 89.94°
- Orbital period
- 87.91 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 100 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-042B
- NORAD catalog №
- 682
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 23, 1965
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 23, 1965
- Time in service
- 1.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed