Payload
PHASE 3C (AO-13)
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PHASE 3C (AO-13) is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 15, 1988 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 15, 1988 at 11:19 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 44LP →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- Meteosat 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,327 km
- Periapsis
- 89 km
- Inclination
- 56.91°
- Orbital period
- 98.94 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 89.2 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1988-051B
- NORAD catalog №
- 19216
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.9033 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 6, 1996
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 6, 1996
- Time in service
- 8.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed