Payload
HEAO 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
HEAO 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 13, 1978 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 13, 1978 at 05:24 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Einstein Observatory
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 174 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 23.49°
- Orbital period
- 87.94 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 3,117.94 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-103A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11101
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 26.5101 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 25, 1982
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 25, 1982
- Time in service
- 3.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed