Payload
OPS 6564 (VELA 6)
activePayloadHEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 20, 1965 at 08:27 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Vela 3A & 3B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 168,956 km
- Periapsis
- 54,526 km
- Inclination
- 41.4°
- Orbital period
- 6733.48 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-058B
- NORAD catalog №
- 1459
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.003 m²
- Status
- active