Payload
ERS 12
DecayedPayloadHEONORAD 675
ERS 12 is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 17, 1963 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 17, 1963 at 02:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Vela 1A & 1B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 102,374 km
- Periapsis
- 953 km
- Inclination
- 35.9°
- Orbital period
- 2319.36 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1.98 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.2 × 0.2 × 0.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-039B
- NORAD catalog №
- 675
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 5, 1966
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 5, 1966
- Time in service
- 2.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed