Payload
OPS 4947 (TRANSIT 17)
activePayloadLEONORAD 2965
OPS 4947 (TRANSIT 17) is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 25, 1967 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 25, 1967 at 08:25 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout A →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Transit-O 14
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,096 km
- Periapsis
- 1,023 km
- Inclination
- 89.25°
- Orbital period
- 106.39 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 50.8 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.457 × 0.254 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-092A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2965
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.3187 m²
- Status
- active