Q12129338
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space telescope
- Named after
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Country of origin
- United States
- Diameter
- 2.1
- Mass
- 2204
- Manufacturer
- Grumman
- Official website
- heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/copernicus/copernicus.html
- Image
- 50th Anniversary of NASA's Copernicus Mission (SVS14189 - 70HC286 OAO 3 full).jpg
- Height
- 3.0
- Width
- 6.3
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- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1972-08-21
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
- Commons category
- OAO-3
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- payload mass
- 450
- launch contractor
- Convair
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