Payload
OPS 5259
DecayedPayloadLEO
OPS 5259 is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 20, 1968 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 20, 1968 at 09:46 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- KH-4A 47
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 180 km
- Periapsis
- 180 km
- Inclination
- 85.13°
- Orbital period
- 88.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 105 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-052B
- NORAD catalog №
- 3297
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 11, 1970
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 11, 1970
- Time in service
- 1.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed