Payload
TRANSIT 5A-3
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 594
TRANSIT 5A-3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 16, 1963 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- June 16, 1963 at 01:49 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout X-3 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Transit-5A 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 168 km
- Periapsis
- 147 km
- Inclination
- 89.78°
- Orbital period
- 87.64 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 59.32 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.4572 × 0.254 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-022A
- NORAD catalog №
- 594
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 3.4392 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 3, 1990
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 3, 1990
- Time in service
- 27.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed