Payload
OPS 8180 (RADCAT)
DecayedPayloadLEO
OPS 8180 (RADCAT) is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 2, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 2, 1972 at 08:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3 Burner-2 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Radcat
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 136 km
- Periapsis
- 124 km
- Inclination
- 98.52°
- Orbital period
- 87.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 208 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-076A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6212
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.6845 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 2, 2012
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 2, 2012
- Time in service
- 39.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed