Payload
RADIATION SAT (5E-1)
activePayloadLEONORAD 671
RADIATION SAT (5E-1) is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 28, 1963 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- September 28, 1963 at 08:22 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Transit 5BN-1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,120 km
- Periapsis
- 1,060 km
- Inclination
- 89.96°
- Orbital period
- 107.05 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 60.46 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.5 × 0.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-038C
- NORAD catalog №
- 671
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.5705 m²
- Status
- active