Payload
TRANSIT 3B & LOFTI 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 22, 1961 at 03:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 225 km
- Periapsis
- 135 km
- Inclination
- 28.38°
- Orbital period
- 88.09 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1961-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 87
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 30, 1961
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 30, 1961
- Time in service
- 36 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed