Payload
TIP 3
DecayedPayloadLEO
TIP 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 1, 1976 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 1, 1976 at 09:14 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- TIP 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 154 km
- Periapsis
- 128 km
- Inclination
- 89.24°
- Orbital period
- 87.3 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 93.16 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-089A
- NORAD catalog №
- 9403
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 3.2146 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 30, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 30, 1981
- Time in service
- 4.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed