Payload
ATS 4
DecayedPayloadLEO
ATS 4 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 10, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 10, 1968 at 10:33 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- ATS 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 219 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 29.02°
- Orbital period
- 88.4 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 388.5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-068A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3344
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 17, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 17, 1968
- Time in service
- 68 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed