LAGEOS-1 (Laser Geodynamics Satellite), NASA’s first dedicated laser-ranging geodesy satellite—a dense aluminum sphere with retroreflectors in medium Earth orbit. Delta 2913/Star-24 (D-123) from Vandenberg SLC-2W placed it to measure Earth crustal motion and gravity-field parameters.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 629 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Delta 2913 flights
- Date and time
- 4 May 1976, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2913
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1976-039
- Launches in 1976
- 40th of 131
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