Payload
SAMOS 2
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SAMOS 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on January 31, 1961 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 31, 1961 at 08:21 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 185 km
- Periapsis
- 175 km
- Inclination
- 97.22°
- Orbital period
- 88.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 166 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1961-001A
- NORAD catalog №
- 70
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 21, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 21, 1973
- Time in service
- 12.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed