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NamesAriel5, PL-732B, UK 5, United Kingdom 5
Mission typeAstronomy
OperatorSERC / NASA
COSPAR ID1974-077A
SATCAT no.7471
Spacecraft properties
ManufacturerGoddard Space Flight Center
Launch mass130.5 kg (288 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date15 October 1974, 07:47:00 UTC
RocketScout B-1
Launch siteSan Marco
End of mission
Decay date14 March 1980
Orbital parameters
Eccentricity0.00325
Perigee altitude512 km (318 mi)
Apogee altitude557 km (346 mi)
Inclination2.9 degrees
Period95.3 minutes
Epoch14 October 1974, 23:00:00 UTC1
Instruments
• Rotation Modulation Collimator
• 2- to 10-KeV Sky Survey Instrument
• High-Resolution Source Spectra
• Bragg Crystal Spectrometer
• High-Energy Cosmic X-Ray Spectra
• All-Sky Monitor
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Footnotes

  1. “Ariel 5 Trajectory Details”. NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. Retrieved 8 March 2020.