Payload
AEROS 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
AEROS 2 is a Germany payload satellite, launched on July 16, 1974 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 16, 1974 at 11:51 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Aeros 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 186 km
- Periapsis
- 175 km
- Inclination
- 97.34°
- Orbital period
- 88.11 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Germany
- Launch mass
- 125.87 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-055A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7371
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Radar cross-section
- 0.2 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 25, 1975
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 25, 1975
- Time in service
- 1.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed