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LOFTI-1
LOFTI-1 was launched on February 22, 1961 aboard a Thor Ablestar from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: reentered attached to another object (Mar 30, 1961).
COSPAR 1961 ETANORAD 87United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Transit III-B
- Common name
- LOFTI-1
- Payload designation
- Transit 3B
- International designator
- 1961 ETA
- NORAD catalog number
- 87
- GCAT identifier
- S00087
Mission
- Mission type
- Navigation
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- Transit
- Owner
- USN BuWeps
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- JHU-Applied Physics Lab
- Platform (bus)
- Transit 1
Launch
- Date
- February 22, 1961 · 03:45 UTC
- Launch record
- 1961 ETASuccess
- Rocket
- Thor Ablestar
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC17B
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 167 km
- Apogee
- 1,002 km
- Inclination
- 28.38°
- Status
- Reentered attached to another object
- Status date
- March 30, 1961
- Last known active
- Mar 30, 1961
- End of operations
- Mar 30, 1961
Size
- Mass
- 170 kg
- Dry mass
- 170 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 796 kg
- Length
- 0.9 m
- Diameter
- 0.90 m
- Span
- 0.9 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q6459486 (CC0).