Payload
TIP 2
DecayedPayloadLEO
TIP 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 12, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Loading…
Launch
- Launch date
- October 12, 1975 at 06:39 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- TIP 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 151 km
- Periapsis
- 131 km
- Inclination
- 90.34°
- Orbital period
- 87.31 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 93.16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-099A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8361
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 3.9465 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 26, 1991
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 26, 1991
- Time in service
- 15.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed