Payload
SURCAL 2
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SURCAL 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 9, 1965 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 9, 1965 at 06:29 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor SLV-2 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Poppy 6A,B,C,D
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 243 km
- Periapsis
- 233 km
- Inclination
- 69.98°
- Orbital period
- 89.27 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 4.96 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-016G
- NORAD catalog №
- 1310
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 4.4859 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 27, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 27, 1981
- Time in service
- 16.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed