Payload
OPS 5268 (CALSPHERE 3)
DecayedPayloadLEO
OPS 5268 (CALSPHERE 3) is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 17, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 17, 1971 at 03:52 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Burner 2 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- DSAP-5A F3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 190 km
- Periapsis
- 183 km
- Inclination
- 98.38°
- Orbital period
- 88.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 0.72 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-012C
- NORAD catalog №
- 4957
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.2684 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 17, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 17, 1989
- Time in service
- 18.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed