Payload
HEAO 3
DecayedPayloadLEO
HEAO 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 20, 1979 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 20, 1979 at 05:28 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- HEAO 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 128 km
- Periapsis
- 125 km
- Inclination
- 43.56°
- Orbital period
- 87.01 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2,872.15 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1979-082A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11532
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 13.9827 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 7, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 7, 1981
- Time in service
- 2.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed