Payload
AEROS (GRS-B)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 6315
AEROS (GRS-B) is a Germany payload satellite, launched on December 16, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 16, 1972 at 11:24 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Aeros 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 207 km
- Periapsis
- 143 km
- Inclination
- 96.92°
- Orbital period
- 87.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Germany
- Launch mass
- 125.87 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.91 × 0.74 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-100A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6315
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 22, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 22, 1973
- Time in service
- 249 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed