Payload
DISCOVERER 15
DecayedPayloadLEO
DISCOVERER 15 is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 13, 1960 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 13, 1960 at 10:13 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Agena A →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Discoverer 15
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 315 km
- Periapsis
- 133 km
- Inclination
- 80.9°
- Orbital period
- 88.97 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 703.67 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-012A
- NORAD catalog №
- 57
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 18, 1960
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 18, 1960
- Time in service
- 35 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed