Payload
A-1 (ASTERIX)
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A-1 (ASTERIX) is a France payload satellite, launched on November 26, 1965 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 26, 1965 at 12:14 PM UTC
- Launch site
- HGSTR
- Launched by
- Kosmos 11K63 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- DS-U2-M 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,624 km
- Periapsis
- 522 km
- Inclination
- 34.26°
- Orbital period
- 106.68 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 39.64 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-096A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1778
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 0.387 m²
- Status
- active