Payload
SURCAL 1A
DecayedPayloadLEO
SURCAL 1A is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 13, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 13, 1962 at 04:07 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Agena D →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Poppy 3A & 3B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 253 km
- Periapsis
- 164 km
- Inclination
- 70.24°
- Orbital period
- 88.67 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 2.97 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-067D
- NORAD catalog №
- 508
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 18, 1966
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 18, 1966
- Time in service
- 3.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed