Payload
DIAL-WIKA
DecayedPayloadLEO
DIAL-WIKA is a Germany payload satellite, launched on March 10, 1970 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 10, 1970 at 12:20 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Diamant B →
- Operator
- National Center of Space Research
- Mission
- Dial Wika
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 661 km
- Periapsis
- 282 km
- Inclination
- 5.4°
- Orbital period
- 94.04 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Germany
- Launch mass
- 62.44 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1970-017A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4344
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Germany- Radar cross-section
- 0.7401 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 5, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 5, 1978
- Time in service
- 8.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed