Payload
ARIEL 6
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 11382
ARIEL 6 is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on June 2, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- June 2, 1979 at 11:26 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- Science and Engineering Research Council
- Mission
- Ariel 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 158 km
- Periapsis
- 147 km
- Inclination
- 55°
- Orbital period
- 87.54 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 152.63 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.7 × 1.31 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-047A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11382
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Radar cross-section
- 3.5855 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 23, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 23, 1990
- Time in service
- 11.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed