Payload
ESSA 5
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
ESSA 5 is a United States payload satellite, launched on April 20, 1967 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 20, 1967 at 11:21 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta E →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- ESSA 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,421 km
- Periapsis
- 1,355 km
- Inclination
- 101.99°
- Orbital period
- 113.52 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 147 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-036A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2757
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.788 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational