Payload
OPS 3978
DecayedPayloadLEO
OPS 3978 is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 21, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1972 at 05:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Titan 24B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- KH-8 37
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 358 km
- Periapsis
- 114 km
- Inclination
- 110.38°
- Orbital period
- 89.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2,973.24 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-103A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6321
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 23, 1973
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 23, 1973
- Time in service
- 33 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed