Payload
LAGEOS 1
OperationalPayloadMEO
LAGEOS 1 is a United States payload satellite, launched on May 4, 1976 into MEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 4, 1976 at 08:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2913 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Lageos 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 5,948 km
- Periapsis
- 5,838 km
- Inclination
- 109.8°
- Orbital period
- 225.47 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 411 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1976-039A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8820
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.3981 m²
- Status
- Operational