Payload
HITCH HIKER 3
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HITCH HIKER 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 21, 1963 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1963 at 09:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- KH-4 26
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 215 km
- Periapsis
- 204 km
- Inclination
- 64.53°
- Orbital period
- 88.68 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 100 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-055B
- NORAD catalog №
- 719
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 7, 1964
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 7, 1964
- Time in service
- 322 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed