Payload
ARIEL 2 (UK-2)
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ARIEL 2 (UK-2) is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on March 27, 1964 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 27, 1964 at 05:25 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Scout X-3 →
- Operator
- Science and Engineering Research Council
- Mission
- Ariel 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 275 km
- Periapsis
- 196 km
- Inclination
- 51.59°
- Orbital period
- 89.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 68 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-015A
- NORAD catalog №
- 771
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 18, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 18, 1967
- Time in service
- 3.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed