Sunday, May 7, 1989

CAT-1

 1979-104A


CAT, the Capsule Ariane Technologique, was a cylinder containing a ballast Al alloy sphere. CAT carried instruments to measure accelerations, noise levels, temperature, pressure and stress during launch of the first Ariane rocket.


CAT 1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1979 Dec 24  1414:41  Launch by Ariane LO1  CSG 
 1417:11  Stage 1 sep 51 km (T+2:30)  -6130 x 81 x 14 
 1417:41  T+3:00 L140 LOS 
 1418:49  Fairing sep (T+4:08)  -5489 x 130 x 14.9  
  T+4:48 L33 MECO 
 1419:34  Stage 2 sep (T+4:53)  -4028 x 199 x 17  
  
 1423:49  T+4:57 St 3 burn 9:08 
 1428:46  T+14:05 St 3 burnout 
 1429:53  CAT sep (T+912s) 
   635.3 201 x 36003 x 17.6 
1979 Dec 27   end of ops? 
1982 Nov 14   Reentered 

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