Sunday, March 14, 1999

DMSP 4

  1970-012A


The first Block 5A satellite was launched on 1970 Feb 11 by Thor Burner 2 from Vandenberg. It operated for two months before the spacecraft wore out its pitch control motor. 0018 LTDN.


DMSP 1524 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1970 Feb 11  0840:47 Launch by Thor Burner 2 (287)  V SLC10W 
 0843  Thor MECO 
 0852? Burner II burn 
 0855? Burner II sep 
   101.4 773 x 874 x 98.7 
1970 Apr 30   End of transmissions 

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