Payload
DISCOVERER 17
DecayedPayloadLEO
DISCOVERER 17 is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 12, 1960 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 12, 1960 at 08:42 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Discoverer 17
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 226 km
- Periapsis
- 166 km
- Inclination
- 81.86°
- Orbital period
- 88.41 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 921.7 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-015A
- NORAD catalog №
- 61
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 29, 1960
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 29, 1960
- Time in service
- 47 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed