Payload
AUREOLE 1
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AUREOLE 1 is a France payload satellite, launched on December 27, 1971 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 27, 1971 at 07:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M) →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Aureole 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,408 km
- Periapsis
- 381 km
- Inclination
- 73.95°
- Orbital period
- 102.88 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- France
- Launch mass
- 396.43 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-119A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5729
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
France- Radar cross-section
- 2.0812 m²
- Status
- active