Payload
ESSA 7 (TOS-E)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
ESSA 7 (TOS-E) is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 16, 1968 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 16, 1968 at 11:24 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta N →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- ESSA 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,473 km
- Periapsis
- 1,431 km
- Inclination
- 101.56°
- Orbital period
- 114.92 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 143.71 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-069A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3345
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.7883 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational