Payload
OSO 2
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OSO 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 3, 1965 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 3, 1965 at 04:36 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta C →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- OSO 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 148 km
- Periapsis
- 146 km
- Inclination
- 32.82°
- Orbital period
- 87.43 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 236 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 987
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.4324 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 9, 1989
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 9, 1989
- Time in service
- 24.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed