Payload
SAN MARCO 3
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SAN MARCO 3 is a Italy payload satellite, launched on April 24, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 24, 1971 at 07:32 AM UTC
- Launch site
- San Marco Platform, Kenya
- Launched by
- Scout B →
- Operator
- Italian Space Agency
- Mission
- San Marco 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 679 km
- Periapsis
- 225 km
- Inclination
- 3.23°
- Orbital period
- 93.62 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Italy
- Launch mass
- 162.54 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-036A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5176
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Italy- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 29, 1971
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 29, 1971
- Time in service
- 219 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed