Payload
MERCURY ATLAS 4
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 13, 1961 at 02:04 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3B →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Mercury-Atlas 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 241 km
- Periapsis
- 149 km
- Inclination
- 32.54°
- Orbital period
- 88.4 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1961-025A
- NORAD catalog №
- 183
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 13, 1961
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 13, 1961
- Time in service
- 0 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed