Payload
ESRO-4
DecayedPayloadLEO
ESRO-4 is a European Space Research Org. payload satellite, launched on November 22, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 22, 1972 at 12:17 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- European Space Research Organisation
- Mission
- ESRO 4
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 255 km
- Periapsis
- 177 km
- Inclination
- 91.05°
- Orbital period
- 88.82 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Research Org.
- Launch mass
- 112.98 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-092A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6285
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Research Org.
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 15, 1974
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 15, 1974
- Time in service
- 1.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed