Payload
EP 3
DecayedPayloadLEO
EP 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 3, 1980 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 3, 1980 at 09:27 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas F MSD →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Parcae 3A,B,C & MSD 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 159 km
- Periapsis
- 119 km
- Inclination
- 63.2°
- Orbital period
- 87.27 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 200 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1980-019G
- NORAD catalog №
- 11745
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 2, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 2, 2021
- Time in service
- 41.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed