Payload
ARIEL 1 (UK-1)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 285
ARIEL 1 (UK-1) is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on April 26, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 26, 1962 at 06:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Ariel 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 191 km
- Periapsis
- 185 km
- Inclination
- 53.76°
- Orbital period
- 88.25 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 59.46 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.58 × 0.53 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-015A
- NORAD catalog №
- 285
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 24, 1976
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 24, 1976
- Time in service
- 14.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed