Payload
DISCOVERER 5
DecayedPayloadLEO
DISCOVERER 5 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 13, 1959 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 13, 1959 at 07:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Agena A →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Discoverer 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 323 km
- Periapsis
- 137 km
- Inclination
- 79.99°
- Orbital period
- 89.1 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 634.29 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1959-005A
- NORAD catalog №
- 18
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 28, 1959
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 28, 1959
- Time in service
- 46 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed