Payload
TRANSIT 5B-1
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TRANSIT 5B-1 is a United States payload satellite, launched on September 28, 1963 into LEO.
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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
- 1,124 km
- Periapsis
- 1,060 km
- Inclination
- 89.96°
- Orbital period
- 107.09 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 69.38 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-038B
- NORAD catalog №
- 670
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.7391 m²
- Status
- active