Payload
DISCOVERER 38
DecayedPayloadLEO
DISCOVERER 38 is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 27, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 27, 1962 at 07:39 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- KH-4 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 201 km
- Periapsis
- 182 km
- Inclination
- 82.23°
- Orbital period
- 88.32 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 941.53 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-005A
- NORAD catalog №
- 247
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 21, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 21, 1962
- Time in service
- 22 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed