D5B (CASTOR)
NORAD 7802 · Payload · Reentered 1979-02-18
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- 1975-05-17 · Kourou, French Guiana
- Country / operator
- FR (Europe)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Technology demonstration
- Mass
- 76 kg
- Size
- 0.7 × 0.8 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 200 × 300 km
- Inclination
- 29.9°
- Period
- 89.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0076
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.