![]() Launch of SA-10 carrying AS-105 | |
Mission type | Spacecraft aerodynamics; micrometeoroid investigation |
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Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 1965-060B |
SATCAT no. | 1468 |
Distance travelled | 912,064,090 kilometers (566,730,350 mi) |
Orbits completed | ~22,152 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Apollo BP-9 Pegasus 3 |
Launch mass | 1,451 kilograms (3,199 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | July 30, 1965, 13:00:00 | UTC
Rocket | Saturn I SA-10 |
Launch site | Cape Kennedy LC-37B |
End of mission | |
Decay date | November 22, 1975[1] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 521 kilometers (324 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 536 kilometers (333 mi) |
Inclination | 28.8 degrees |
Period | 95.2 minutes |
Epoch | 3 September 1965[1] |
AS-105 was the fifth and final orbital flight of a boilerplate Apollo spacecraft, and the third and final launch of a Pegasus micrometeoroid detection satellite. It was launched by SA-10, the tenth and final Saturn I rocket, in 1965.