Payload
LOFTI 2A
DecayedPayloadLEO
LOFTI 2A is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 15, 1963 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 15, 1963 at 02:29 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Poppy 4A & 4B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 245 km
- Periapsis
- 153 km
- Inclination
- 69.86°
- Orbital period
- 88.47 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 25.77 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-021B
- NORAD catalog №
- 601
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 18, 1963
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 18, 1963
- Time in service
- 33 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed