Tuesday, August 12, 1980

DMSP 7529

 1973-054A


DMSP Block 5B F-4 (satellite 7529) was launched on 1973 Aug 17 by Thor Burner 2A from Vandenberg. It became the system's dawn-dusk satellite, in sun-synchronous orbit crossing the equator at a constant local time of 2025 LT.


DMSP 07529 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1973 Aug 17  0449:12  Launch by Thor Burner 2A  V SLC10W 
 0451  Thor MECO 
 0452?  Star 37 burn 42s 
 0452? Star 37 sep 
 0502? Star 26 burn 18s 
 0503? Star 26 sep 
   101.6 811 x 852 x 98.9 
1973 Sep 21   Declared operational 

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