Payload
SOICAL [CYLINDER]
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 4166
SOICAL [CYLINDER] is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 30, 1969 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 30, 1969 at 01:40 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Poppy 8A,B,C,D
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 240 km
- Periapsis
- 232 km
- Inclination
- 69.92°
- Orbital period
- 89.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2.45 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.254 × 1.016 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-082J
- NORAD catalog №
- 4166
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.2212 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 14, 2023
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 14, 2023
- Time in service
- 53.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed