Payload
OSO 6
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 9, 1969 at 07:52 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta N →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- OSO 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 172 km
- Periapsis
- 169 km
- Inclination
- 32.94°
- Orbital period
- 87.9 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-068A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4065
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.8765 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 7, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 7, 1981
- Time in service
- 11.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed