Payload
OAO 3 (COPERNICUS)
activePayloadLEONORAD 6153
OAO 3 (COPERNICUS) is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 21, 1972 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 21, 1972 at 10:28 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Copernicus
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 698 km
- Periapsis
- 688 km
- Inclination
- 35°
- Orbital period
- 98.63 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2,200.2 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.15 × 4.9 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-065A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6153
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 6.42 m²
- Status
- active