Payload
ESSA 2 (OT-2)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 28, 1966 at 01:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta E →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- ESSA 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,414 km
- Periapsis
- 1,355 km
- Inclination
- 101.23°
- Orbital period
- 113.44 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-016A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2091
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.765 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational