Payload
ERS 17
DecayedPayloadHEO
ERS 17 is a United States payload satellite, launched on July 20, 1965 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 20, 1965 at 08:27 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Vela 3A & 3B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 111,791 km
- Periapsis
- 566 km
- Inclination
- 36.88°
- Orbital period
- 2595.19 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 5 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-058C
- NORAD catalog №
- 1460
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 1, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 1, 1968
- Time in service
- 2.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed