Payload
ARIEL 4 (UK-4)
DecayedPayloadLEO
ARIEL 4 (UK-4) is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on December 11, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 11, 1971 at 08:47 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout B-1 →
- Operator
- Science and Engineering Research Council
- Mission
- Ariel 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 234 km
- Periapsis
- 227 km
- Inclination
- 82.95°
- Orbital period
- 89.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 98.61 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-109A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5675
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 3.4063 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 12, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 12, 1978
- Time in service
- 7.0 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed