Payload
TRANSIT 5B-2
activePayloadLEONORAD 704
TRANSIT 5B-2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 5, 1963 into LEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- December 5, 1963 at 09:51 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Transit-5BN 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,108 km
- Periapsis
- 1,058 km
- Inclination
- 89.92°
- Orbital period
- 106.89 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 74.33 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.5 × 0.6 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-049B
- NORAD catalog №
- 704
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.1223 m²
- Status
- active