Payload
DISCOVERER 6
DecayedPayloadLEO
DISCOVERER 6 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 19, 1959 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 19, 1959 at 07:24 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Agena A →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Discoverer 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 469 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 84°
- Orbital period
- 90.92 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 634.29 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1959-006A
- NORAD catalog №
- 19
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 20, 1959
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 20, 1959
- Time in service
- 62 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed