Payload
EXPLORER 15 (SERB 53B)
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Explorer 15, also called EPE-C or Energetic Particles Explorer-C, was a NASA satellite launched as part of the Explorer program. Explorer 15 was launched on 27 October 1962, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, United States, with a Thor-Delta A.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 27, 1962 at 11:15 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta A →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Explorer 15
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 800 km
- Periapsis
- 152 km
- Inclination
- 18.02°
- Orbital period
- 94.12 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 44.8 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-059A
- NORAD catalog №
- 445
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 15, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 15, 1978
- Time in service
- 15.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed