CAT-1
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ariane Technological Capsule 1, Technological Capsule 1, Obélix, CAT-01
CAT-1 (also Technological Capsule 1, also Obélix) was the first artificial Earth satellite launched by the European Space Agency on their own rocket, the Ariane 1. It was only intended to provide data on the launch characteristics of the new rocket and was only powered for 8 orbits.
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- 1602
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- time of object orbit decay
- 1989-11-27
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1979-12-24
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CAT-1 (also Technological Capsule 1, also Obélix) was the first artificial Earth satellite launched by the European Space Agency on their own rocket, the Ariane 1. It was only intended to provide data on the launch characteristics of the new rocket and was only powered for 8 orbits.
== See also == List of European Space Agency programmes and missions YPSat-1