Payload
TRANSIT 1B
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TRANSIT 1B is a United States payload satellite, launched on April 13, 1960 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 13, 1960 at 12:02 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Transit 1B
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 220 km
- Periapsis
- 201 km
- Inclination
- 51.2°
- Orbital period
- 88.7 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 119.92 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-003B
- NORAD catalog №
- 31
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 5, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 5, 1967
- Time in service
- 7.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed