Payload
ANS
DecayedPayloadLEO
ANS is a Netherlands payload satellite, launched on August 30, 1974 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 30, 1974 at 02:07 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- ANS
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 186 km
- Periapsis
- 168 km
- Inclination
- 97.94°
- Orbital period
- 88.03 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Netherlands
- Launch mass
- 127.85 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-070A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7427
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Netherlands- Radar cross-section
- 0.8581 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 14, 1977
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 14, 1977
- Time in service
- 2.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed