Payload
DISCOVERER 7
DecayedPayloadLEO
DISCOVERER 7 is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 7, 1959 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 7, 1959 at 08:28 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Agena A →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Discoverer 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 539 km
- Periapsis
- 161 km
- Inclination
- 81.64°
- Orbital period
- 91.54 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 654.11 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1959-010A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 26, 1959
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 26, 1959
- Time in service
- 19 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed