Payload
OPS 8261
DecayedPayloadLEO
OPS 8261 is a United States payload satellite, launched on July 13, 1973 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 13, 1973 at 08:22 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Titan IIID →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- KH-9 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 235 km
- Periapsis
- 204 km
- Inclination
- 96.15°
- Orbital period
- 88.89 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 13,181.37 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-046A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6727
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 12, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 12, 1973
- Time in service
- 91 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed