Payload
BLACK SPHERE
DecayedPayloadLEO
BLACK SPHERE is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 13, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 13, 1962 at 04:07 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Poppy 3A & 3B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 270 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 70.23°
- Orbital period
- 88.9 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 22.79 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-067A
- NORAD catalog №
- 502
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 9, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 9, 1967
- Time in service
- 4.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed