Payload
STS 2 (OFT-2)
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 12, 1981 at 03:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Space Shuttle →
- Operator
- Rockwell International
- Mission
- STS-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 265 km
- Periapsis
- 255 km
- Inclination
- 38.03°
- Orbital period
- 89.71 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1981-111A
- NORAD catalog №
- 12953
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 14, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 14, 1981
- Time in service
- 2 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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