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Class: Earth. Type: Geodetic. Nation: France. Agency: CNES.

French geodetic satellites.

Typical orbit: 564 x 1408 km, 39.7 deg inclinaton. Mass: 23 kg (50 lb).

Diadem Chronology

1967 February 8 - Diademe 1 - Launch Site: Hammaguira. Launch Complex: Brigitte. Launch Vehicle: Diamant. FAILURE: Partial Failure - injected into too low an orbit. Mass: 23 kg (50 lb). Perigee: 545 km (338 mi). Apogee: 1,084 km (673 mi). Inclination: 40.00 deg. Period: 101.20 min.
Orbit too low. Launch time of Diadem I was 10:39:40 on 8 Feb 1967. Launch time of Diadem II was 11:06:57 on 15 Feb 1967.

1967 February 15 - Diademe 2 - Launch Site: Hammaguira. Launch Complex: Brigitte. Launch Vehicle: Diamant. Mass: 23 kg (50 lb). Perigee: 584 km (362 mi). Apogee: 1,733 km (1,076 mi). Inclination: 39.40 deg. Period: 108.50 min.
Launch time of Diadem I was 10:39:40 on 8 Feb 1967. Launch time of Diadem II was 11:06:57 on 15 Feb 1967.

Bibliography:

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page (launch records), Harvard University, 1997-present. Web Address when accessed: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Web Address when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.
McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Web Address when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

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