Payload
ALOUETTE 1 (S-27)
activePayloadLEONORAD 424
ALOUETTE 1 (S-27) is a Canada payload satellite, launched on September 29, 1962 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 29, 1962 at 06:05 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Alouette 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,017 km
- Periapsis
- 985 km
- Inclination
- 80.47°
- Orbital period
- 105.14 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Canada
- Launch mass
- 143.41 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.86 × 1.07 × 1.07 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-049A
- NORAD catalog №
- 424
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Canada- Radar cross-section
- 1.08 m²
- Status
- active