Payload
HITCH HIKER 1
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HITCH HIKER 1 is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 27, 1963 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 27, 1963 at 12:37 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- KH-4 22
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 235 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 81.92°
- Orbital period
- 88.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 126 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-025B
- NORAD catalog №
- 614
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.414 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 13, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 13, 2024
- Time in service
- 61.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed