Payload
MERCURY ATLAS 9
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MERCURY ATLAS 9 is a United States payload satellite, launched on May 15, 1963 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 15, 1963 at 01:04 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3B →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Mercury-Atlas 9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 266 km
- Periapsis
- 163 km
- Inclination
- 32.54°
- Orbital period
- 88.79 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,357.78 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-015A
- NORAD catalog №
- 576
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 16, 1963
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 16, 1963
- Time in service
- 1 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed