Transit 1B

American naval navigation satellite
Vehicle military_satellite Q4461950
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Transit 1B

Summary

Transit 1B is a military satellite[1].

Key Facts

  • Transit 1B's image is recorded as Transit 1B (cropped).jpg[2].
  • Transit 1B's instance of is recorded as military satellite[3].
  • Transit 1B's COSPAR ID is recorded as 1960-003B[4].
  • Transit 1B's Commons category is recorded as Transit 1B[5].
  • Transit 1B's space launch vehicle is recorded as Thor-Ablestar[6].
  • Transit 1B's SCN is recorded as 00031[7].
  • Transit 1B's parent astronomical body is recorded as Earth[8].
  • Transit 1B's UTC date of spacecraft launch is recorded as +1960-04-13T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Transit 1B's time of object orbit decay is recorded as +1967-10-05T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Transit 1B's significant event is recorded as rocket launch[11].
  • Transit 1B's significant event is recorded as atmospheric entry[12].
  • Transit 1B's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.027'}[13].
  • Transit 1B's start point is recorded as Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17[14].
  • Transit 1B's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+51.3'}[15].
  • Transit 1B's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11570', 'amount': '+121'}[16].
  • Transit 1B's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+95.8'}[17].
  • Transit 1B's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+748'}[18].
  • Transit 1B's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+373'}[19].
  • Transit 1B's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q174728', 'amount': '+91'}[20].
  • Transit 1B's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121lt079[21].
  • Transit 1B's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Satellite", "00031"][22].
  • Transit 1B's Harvard designation is recorded as 1960 Gamma 2[23].
  • Transit 1B's NSSDCA ID is recorded as 1960-003B[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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