Sunday, January 20, 2013

OGO 5

  1968-014A


The OGO 5 payload was launched at 1306:01 on 1968 Mar 4 by an Atlas Agena D. OGO 5 had two 9m radio astronomy antennas. The satellite studied the plasmapause region of the magnetosphere. Agena 6503 delivered Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 into a 232 x 148228 km x 31.1 deg orbit and the satellite was operational on Mar 16. Attitude control failed on 1971 Aug 6 and the satellite was put on standby on 1971 Oct 8. 3 experiments were turned back on on 1972 Jun 1, and OGO 5 was finally decommissioned on 1972 Jul 14.


OGO 5 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1968 Mar 4  1306:01  Launch by Atlas Agena D  CK 
 1308:35 BECO 
 1308:39  Booster jettison 
 1311:26 SECO 
 1311:45 VECO and horizon sensor fairing jet 
 1311:50 Atlas sep  -3782 x 182 x 30.99 
 1311:50  Agena 6503 MES-1 145.7s 
 1312:59 Fairing sep 
 1315:15 T+9:14 Agena MECO-1 186 x 278 x 31.1  
 1358:54 T+52:53 Agena MES-2 94.8s 
 1400:30 T+54:29 Agena MECO-2  278 x 145758 x 31.2 
 1402:05  T+56:04 Agena sep 
   3795.96 271 x 148186 x 31.1 
1968 Mar 5  1637? Pass EL1:4 
1968 Mar 16   Operational 
1968 Dec 17    3745.07 5075 x 141938 x 41.2 
1969 Jan 31    3745.38 6043 x 140979 x 43.8 
1970 Feb 2    3745.76 15034 x 131999 x 50.5 
1970 Jul 12    3745.70 19094 x 127937 x 52.2 
1971 Jan 1    3745.23 23592 x 123426 x 53.7 
1971 May 14    3745.79 27007 x 120026 x 54.1 
1971 Aug 6   Attitude control issues
1971 Oct 8   On standby 
1972 Jun 1   Back on 
1972 Jul 14   Decommissioned 
2008 Jul 23    19149 x 127902 x 51.4 
2011 Jul 2   Reentered

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