Payload
OSO 3
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OSO 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 8, 1967 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 8, 1967 at 04:12 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta C →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- OSO 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 164 km
- Periapsis
- 161 km
- Inclination
- 32.83°
- Orbital period
- 87.74 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 284 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-020A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2703
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.8056 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 4, 1982
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 4, 1982
- Time in service
- 15.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed