Scale model of Ariel 1 satellite, London Science Museum
Names
UK-1, S-55
Mission type
Ionospheric
Operator
SERC / NASA[1]
Harvard designation
1962 Omicron 1[2]
COSPAR ID
1962-015A
SATCAT no.
285[1]
Spacecraft properties
Manufacturer
Goddard Space Flight Center
Launch mass
62 kilograms (137 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date
26 April 1962, 18:00:00 (1962-04-26UTC18Z) UTC
Rocket
Thor DM-19 Delta
Launch site
Cape Canaveral LC-17A
End of mission
Decay date
24 May 1976
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Regime
Low Earth
Eccentricity
0.0561326957
Perigee altitude
397 kilometres (247 mi)
Apogee altitude
1,202 kilometres (747 mi)
Inclination
53.8 degrees
Period
100.86 minutes
Epoch
14 June 1962[3]
Ariel
Ariel 2 →
Ariel 1 (also known as UK-1 and S-55), was the first British-American satellite, and the first satellite in the Ariel programme. Its launch in 1962 made the United Kingdom the third country to operate a satellite, after the Soviet Union and the United States. It was constructed in the UK and the United States by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and SERC, under an agreement reached as the result of political discussions in 1959 and 1960. The US Starfish Prime exoatmospheric nuclear test affected Ariel 1's operational capability.
^ ab"Ariel 1". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
^Wells, Whiteley & Karegeannes 1976, p. 171.
^McDowell, Jonathan. "Satellite Catalog". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
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