Payload
OPS 4740
DecayedPayloadLEO
OPS 4740 is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 12, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 12, 1968 at 10:22 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- KH-4A 49
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 137 km
- Periapsis
- 111 km
- Inclination
- 81.02°
- Orbital period
- 86.96 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,982.16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-112A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3604
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 28, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 28, 1968
- Time in service
- 16 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed