Payload
ESSA 3 (TOS-A)
NonoperationalPayloadLEONORAD 2435
ESSA 3 (TOS-A) is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 2, 1966 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 2, 1966 at 10:39 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta E →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- ESSA 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,486 km
- Periapsis
- 1,386 km
- Inclination
- 101.08°
- Orbital period
- 114.57 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 148 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.1 × 0.6 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-087A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2435
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.7561 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational