Discoverer 1
Sign in to saveAmerican reconnaissance satellite launched in 1959; failed to achieve orbit
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- reconnaissance satellite
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Diameter
- 1.52
- Mass
- 618
- Orbital period
- 96
- Image
- Discoverer-1.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1959-02-28
- periapsis
- 163
- apoapsis
- 967
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.0579
- Commons category
- Discoverer 1
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