Payload
ARIEL 3 (UK-3)
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 5, 1967 at 04:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout A →
- Operator
- Science and Engineering Research Council
- Mission
- Ariel 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 182 km
- Periapsis
- 163 km
- Inclination
- 80.1°
- Orbital period
- 87.94 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-042A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2773
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 14, 1970
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 14, 1970
- Time in service
- 3.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed