Payload
SAMOS 6
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SAMOS 6 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 10:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Samos 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 155 km
- Periapsis
- 155 km
- Inclination
- 90.89°
- Orbital period
- 87.58 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 600 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 256
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 7, 1963
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 7, 1963
- Time in service
- 1.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed