- Home
- Spacecraft
- S3-3
S3-3
This spacecraft was a small observatory in a near-polar orbit with eight different sensors on board. It was designed to observe various magnetospheric parameters and their interrelationships. S3-3 was launched on July 8, 1976 aboard a Titan IIID from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Apr 24, 1986).
COSPAR 1976-065BNORAD 9007United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- S3-3
- Other names
- STP S74-2:PN
- International designator
- 1976-065B
- NORAD catalog number
- 9007
- GCAT identifier
- S09007
- UN registration
- A/AC.105/INF.353
Mission
- Mission type
- Space science
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- STP1
- Owner
- USAF STP
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Boeing Space Center, Kent
- Platform (bus)
- S3
Launch
- Date
- July 8, 1976 · 18:30 UTC
- Launch record
- 1976-065Success
- Rocket
- Titan IIID
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC4E
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- MEO
- Perigee
- 232 km
- Apogee
- 6,038 km
- Inclination
- 97.46°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- April 24, 1986
- Last known active
- May 15, 1979
- End of operations
- May 15, 1979
Size
- Mass
- 160 kg
- Dry mass
- 160 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 285 kg
- Length
- 0.5 m
- Diameter
- 1.60 m
- Span
- 36.0 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q113275428 (CC0).