Payload
OSCAR 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 12, 1961 at 08:40 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 207 km
- Periapsis
- 207 km
- Inclination
- 81.14°
- Orbital period
- 88.63 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1961-034B
- NORAD catalog №
- 214
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 31, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 31, 1962
- Time in service
- 50 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed