ESSA 5

  1967-036A

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ESSA V was another global weather monitoring satellite with an AVCS camera system. Launched from Vandenberg on 1967 Apr 20, it entered a 1361 x 1423 km x 102.0 deg orbit and replaced ESSA III. It transmitted until 1970 Feb 20.

ESSA 5
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1967 Apr 20	1121:10	Launch by Delta E	V SLC2E
		T+0:43 SRM out
		T+1:10 SRM sep
	1123:42	T+2:32 Thor S/N 20215 MECO
		T+2:34 Thor sep
	1123	T+2:34 Delta S/N 20214 burn 6:11
		T+2:38 Fairing sep
	1129:59	T+8:49 Delta SECO V=5.87 km/s
	1139:33	T+18:23 X-258C4 RH141 burn 23s
	1139:56	T+18:46 X-258 burnout	1361 x 1423 x 102.0
	1141:18	T+20:08 X-258 sep
1967 Apr 24		Cameras on
1967 May 8		To ESSA,replaced ESSA 3
1970 Feb 20		end of tx