Payload
PAGEOS 1
DecayedPayloadLEO
PAGEOS 1 is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 24, 1966 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 24, 1966 at 12:12 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Pageos
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 583 km
- Periapsis
- 198 km
- Inclination
- 83.61°
- Orbital period
- 92.37 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 67 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-056A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2253
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.3945 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 2, 2016
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 2, 2016
- Time in service
- 50.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed