Payload
DISCOVERER 5 CAPSULE
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DISCOVERER 5 CAPSULE 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
- 280 km
- Periapsis
- 143 km
- Inclination
- 78.94°
- Orbital period
- 88.73 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 138.75 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1959-005B
- NORAD catalog №
- 26
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 11, 1961
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 11, 1961
- Time in service
- 1.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed