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Lincoln Experimental Satellite 1
American communications satellite which stopped transmitting in 1967, but resumed c. 2012. Lincoln Experimental Satellite 1 was launched on February 11, 1965 aboard a Titan IIIA from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1965-008CNORAD 1002United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- LES 1
- Common name
- Lincoln Experimental Satellite 1
- International designator
- 1965-008C
- NORAD catalog number
- 1002
- GCAT identifier
- S01002
- UN registration
- A/AC.105/INF.099
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- LES
- Owner
- USAF SSD
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Lincoln Labs, Mass. Inst of Technology
- Platform (bus)
- LES
Launch
- Date
- February 11, 1965 · 15:19 UTC
- Launch record
- 1965-008Success
- Rocket
- Titan IIIA
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC20
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- MEO
- Perigee
- 2,782 km
- Apogee
- 2,805 km
- Inclination
- 32.14°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- February 2023
- End of operations
- 1967
Size
- Mass
- 31 kg
- Dry mass
- 31 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 158 kg
- Length
- 0.6 m
- Diameter
- 0.60 m
- Span
- 0.6 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q11756909 (CC0).