Payload
FTV 0240
DecayedPayloadLEO
FTV 0240 is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 19, 1963 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 19, 1963 at 04:52 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout X-3M →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- DSAP-1 F3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 173 km
- Periapsis
- 158 km
- Inclination
- 100.41°
- Orbital period
- 87.8 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 39.64 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-005A
- NORAD catalog №
- 533
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.8753 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 27, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 27, 1979
- Time in service
- 16.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed