Payload
OPS 5268 (CALSPHERE 5)
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 17, 1971 at 03:52 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Burner 2 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- DSAP-5A F3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 185 km
- Periapsis
- 173 km
- Inclination
- 98.17°
- Orbital period
- 88.07 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-012E
- NORAD catalog №
- 4963
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.2323 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 7, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 7, 1990
- Time in service
- 18.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed