Payload
TRANSIT 5A
DecayedPayloadLEO
TRANSIT 5A is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 19, 1962 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 19, 1962 at 01:25 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout X-3 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Transit-5A 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 203 km
- Periapsis
- 197 km
- Inclination
- 90.55°
- Orbital period
- 88.5 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 60.46 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-071A
- NORAD catalog №
- 509
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.5358 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 25, 1986
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 25, 1986
- Time in service
- 23.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed