Payload
DIAPASON (D1-A)
activePayloadMEONORAD 2016
DIAPASON (D1-A) is a France payload satellite, launched on February 17, 1966 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- February 17, 1966 at 08:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- HGSTR
- Launched by
- Diamant A →
- Operator
- National Center of Space Research
- Mission
- Diapason D-1A
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 2,296 km
- Periapsis
- 496 km
- Inclination
- 34.09°
- Orbital period
- 113.7 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 18.83 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.5 × 0.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-013A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2016
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 1.2371 m²
- Status
- active