Payload
OPS 3662 (VELA 3)
activePayloadHEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 17, 1964 at 08:22 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Vela 2A & 2B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 159,424 km
- Periapsis
- 47,143 km
- Inclination
- 52.88°
- Orbital period
- 6023.39 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-040A
- NORAD catalog №
- 836
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.9885 m²
- Status
- active