Payload
ERS 5
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 9, 1963 at 08:06 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Midas 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 266 km
- Periapsis
- 216 km
- Inclination
- 84.23°
- Orbital period
- 89.33 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-014B
- NORAD catalog №
- 579
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.1853 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 11, 2011
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 11, 2011
- Time in service
- 48.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed