Payload
TOURNESOL
DecayedPayloadLEO
TOURNESOL is a France payload satellite, launched on April 15, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 15, 1971 at 09:19 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Diamant B →
- Operator
- National Center of Space Research
- Mission
- Tournesol
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 158 km
- Periapsis
- 155 km
- Inclination
- 46.31°
- Orbital period
- 87.62 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 95.14 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-030A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5128
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 2.308 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 28, 1980
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 28, 1980
- Time in service
- 8.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed