Payload
SAMOS 8 (FTV 2402)
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 17, 1962 at 06:14 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Samos-E6 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 199 km
- Periapsis
- 199 km
- Inclination
- 96.3°
- Orbital period
- 88.48 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-023A
- NORAD catalog №
- 307
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 18, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 18, 1962
- Time in service
- 1 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed