Payload
DYNAMICS EXPLORER 2
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DYNAMICS EXPLORER 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 3, 1981 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 3, 1981 at 09:56 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 3913 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Dynamics Explorer 1 & 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 168 km
- Periapsis
- 139 km
- Inclination
- 89.9°
- Orbital period
- 87.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 420 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-070B
- NORAD catalog №
- 12625
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 5.24 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 19, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 19, 1983
- Time in service
- 1.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed