Payload
SAMOS 9 (FTV 2403)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 343
SAMOS 9 (FTV 2403) is a United States payload satellite, launched on July 18, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- July 18, 1962 at 08:51 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Samos-E6 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 215 km
- Periapsis
- 163 km
- Inclination
- 96.11°
- Orbital period
- 88.28 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,843.41 kg
- Dimensions
- 6.7 m span
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-030B
- NORAD catalog №
- 343
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 27, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 27, 1962
- Time in service
- 9 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed