Payload
OGO 2 (POGO)
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OGO 2 (POGO) is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 14, 1965 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 14, 1965 at 01:11 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- OGO 2
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 170 km
- Periapsis
- 145 km
- Inclination
- 87.25°
- Orbital period
- 87.64 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 507 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-081A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1620
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 10.2338 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 17, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 17, 1981
- Time in service
- 15.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed