Payload
NATO 2B
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
NATO 2B is a NATO payload satellite, launched on February 3, 1971 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 3, 1971 at 01:41 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta M →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- NATO IIB
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 35,799 km
- Periapsis
- 35,774 km
- Inclination
- 1.16°
- Orbital period
- 1436.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- NATO
- Launch mass
- 127.85 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4902
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- NATO
- Radar cross-section
- 1.8141 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational