Payload
TD-1A
DecayedPayloadLEO
TD-1A is a European Space Research Org. payload satellite, launched on March 12, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 12, 1972 at 01:55 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta N →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- TD-1A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 246 km
- Periapsis
- 241 km
- Inclination
- 97.46°
- Orbital period
- 89.37 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Research Org.
- Launch mass
- 467.05 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5879
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Research Org.
- Radar cross-section
- 6.3134 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 9, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 9, 1980
- Time in service
- 7.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed