Payload
OTS-2
NonoperationalPayloadGEO
OTS-2 is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on May 11, 1978 into GEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 11, 1978 at 10:59 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 3914 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- OTS 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- GEO
- Apoapsis
- 36,143 km
- Periapsis
- 36,070 km
- Inclination
- 8.02°
- Orbital period
- 1452.46 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 440.04 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-044A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10855
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Radar cross-section
- 1 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational