Payload
DISCOVERER 18
DecayedPayloadLEO
DISCOVERER 18 is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 7, 1960 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 7, 1960 at 08:20 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Discoverer 18
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 279 km
- Periapsis
- 179 km
- Inclination
- 81.48°
- Orbital period
- 89.08 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 941.53 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-018A
- NORAD catalog №
- 67
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 2, 1961
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 2, 1961
- Time in service
- 116 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed