Payload
D5B (CASTOR)
DecayedPayloadLEO
D5B (CASTOR) is a France payload satellite, launched on May 17, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 17, 1975 at 10:32 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Diamant BP4 →
- Operator
- National Center of Space Research
- Mission
- Castor & Pollux
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 300 km
- Periapsis
- 200 km
- Inclination
- 29.93°
- Orbital period
- 89.5 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 76 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-039B
- NORAD catalog №
- 7802
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 0.4466 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 18, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 18, 1979
- Time in service
- 3.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed