Payload
MERCURY ATLAS 5
DecayedPayloadNORAD 208
MERCURY ATLAS 5 is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 29, 1961. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 29, 1961 at 03:07 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3B →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Mercury-Atlas 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,288.4 kg
- Dimensions
- 2.9 × 1.83 × 2.9 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1961-033A
- NORAD catalog №
- 208
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 29, 1961
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 29, 1961
- Time in service
- 0 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed