Payload
OPS 8373
DecayedPayloadLEO
OPS 8373 is a United States payload satellite, launched on July 16, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 16, 1971 at 10:49 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thorad SLV-2H Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Strawman 4
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 231 km
- Periapsis
- 225 km
- Inclination
- 74.96°
- Orbital period
- 89.06 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,982.16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-060A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5329
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 41.259 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 31, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 31, 1978
- Time in service
- 7.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed