Payload
COS-B
DecayedPayloadHEO
COS-B is a European Space Agency payload satellite, launched on August 9, 1975 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 9, 1975 at 01:50 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2913 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- COS-B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 89,409 km
- Periapsis
- 9,985 km
- Inclination
- 96.54°
- Orbital period
- 2202.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 272.55 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-072A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8062
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 18, 1986
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 18, 1986
- Time in service
- 10.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed