Payload
HEAO 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
HEAO 1 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 12, 1977 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 12, 1977 at 06:29 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- HEAO 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 157 km
- Periapsis
- 157 km
- Inclination
- 22.74°
- Orbital period
- 87.63 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 3,149.65 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1977-075A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10217
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 9.8033 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 15, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 15, 1979
- Time in service
- 1.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed