Payload
ARIEL 5 (UK 5)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 7471
ARIEL 5 (UK 5) is a United Kingdom payload satellite, launched on October 15, 1974 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- October 15, 1974 at 07:47 AM UTC
- Launch site
- San Marco Platform, Kenya
- Launched by
- Scout B-1 →
- Operator
- Science and Engineering Research Council
- Mission
- Ariel 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 198 km
- Periapsis
- 196 km
- Inclination
- 2.88°
- Orbital period
- 88.43 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Kingdom
- Launch mass
- 133.8 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.95 × 0.86 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-077A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7471
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Kingdom- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 14, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 14, 1980
- Time in service
- 5.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed