Payload
OSO 1
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OSO 1 is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 7, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 7, 1962 at 04:06 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- OSO 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 147 km
- Periapsis
- 147 km
- Inclination
- 32.81°
- Orbital period
- 87.42 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 206.14 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-006A
- NORAD catalog №
- 255
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.73 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 8, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 8, 1981
- Time in service
- 19.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed