Payload
ESSA 1 (OT-3)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
ESSA 1 (OT-3) is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 3, 1966 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 3, 1966 at 07:41 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta C →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- ESSA 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 789 km
- Periapsis
- 673 km
- Inclination
- 97.81°
- Orbital period
- 99.42 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 136.77 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-008A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1982
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.6705 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational