Payload
LES-3
DecayedPayloadMEO
LES-3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 21, 1965 into MEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1965 at 02:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Titan IIIC →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- OV2-3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 2,983 km
- Periapsis
- 179 km
- Inclination
- 26.36°
- Orbital period
- 117.77 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-108D
- NORAD catalog №
- 1941
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 6, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 6, 1968
- Time in service
- 2.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed