Orbital Sciences CorporationMinotaur VLaunch Area 0 B, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
LADEE
Launched
September 7, 2013
Image: NASA/NASA Edge/Franklin Fitzgerald
Summary
LADEE launched on an Orbital Sciences Corporation Minotaur V from Launch Area 0 B, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA on September 7, 2013. It was Orbital Sciences Corporation's 67th launch, 3rd this year and humanity's 5,317th orbital launch attempt. It was the 1st Minotaur V flight. The payload was bound for Lunar Orbit (LO). The tracked orbit of LADEE, one of 2 catalogued objects, from September 13, 2013, was 2,035 × 318,536 km inclined 36.0°. 2 objects from this launch are catalogued, one of them a payload.
- Watch
- LADEE Launches!NASA
- Vehicle
- Minotaur V · Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Booster
- No booster details on record.
- Mission
- Robotic Exploration · Lunar Orbit (LO)
- Milestone
- 1st Minotaur V flightOrbital Sciences Corporation's 67th launch3rd this yearhumanity's 5,317th orbital launch attempt49th orbital launch attempt this year
Flight preview
Orbit: as tracked
LADEE · NORAD 39246 · 2013-047 · Space-Track · tracking 1 of 2 objects
Show the numbers for orbit elements
- Object
- TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
- Object ID
- 2013-047A
- Epoch
- 2013-09-13 17:15:09 UTC
- Mean motion
- 0.1276058 rev/day
- Eccentricity
- 0.9495615
- Inclination
- 36.0124°
- Ascending node
- 231.4998°
- Arg. of perigee
- 155.4726°
- Mean anomaly
- 357.7246°
- Element set
- 999
- Rev at epoch
- 1
- B*
- 0
Perigee, apogee and period are Kepler figures from the catalogued mean elements, not a propagated state. Published orbit: LO. Ascent drawn from padside's representative profile.
Catalogued objects
2 catalogued: 1 payload, 1 rocket stage
- LADEE · NORAD 39246 · left Earth orbit September 7, 2013
Minotaur V (1) Stage 4 · re-entered November 27, 2013
Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org
About this launch
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE, pronounced like "laddie") was a robotic mission that orbited the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust.
Pad
Launch Area 0 B, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
5th launch from Launch Area 0 B, 1st this year · 54th from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
8 launches from this pad · 87 from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
about 2 years after the previous launch from this pad
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Questions
When did LADEE launch?
LADEE launched on September 7, 2013. The time is known to the hour, not the minute.
Where can I watch LADEE?
Coverage: LADEE Launches!. Watch the replay
What rocket launched LADEE?
Minotaur V, flown by Orbital Sciences Corporation. Minotaur V spec sheet
Where did LADEE launch from?
Launch Area 0 B, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA.
What orbit did LADEE reach?
The tracked orbit of LADEE, one of 2 catalogued objects, from September 13, 2013, was 2,035 × 318,536 km inclined 36.0°.
How many satellites did LADEE launch?
1 payload from this launch is catalogued (Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org).