Payload
SKYNET 2A
DecayedPayloadHEO
SKYNET 2A is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on January 19, 1974 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 19, 1974 at 01:38 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2313 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Skynet IIA
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 31,319 km
- Periapsis
- 1,074 km
- Inclination
- 26.55°
- Orbital period
- 562.58 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 232.9 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-002A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7096
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 25, 1974
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 25, 1974
- Time in service
- 6 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed