Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
10:06:00
Wednesday February 15, 1967
Last flight of a Diamant A, and last launch from the Hammaguir base.
The French satellites Diadème 1 and Diadème 2 were geodetic missions. These satellites are magnetically stabilized which limits their trackability in the southern hemisphere. Diadème has the following instrumentation onboard: - Dual frequency Doppler transmitters - Retroreflector array consisting of 2 flattened truncated cones with 77 cube corners per cone for a total of 144 cube corners.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
23 kilograms
Manufacturer
AérospatialeRocket
Height: 18.49m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 80 kg
GTO: 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust
274 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 0.65m
Height: 2.16m
Stages
3
4th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1967
4th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1967
15th
Orbital launch attempt