Payload
EXPLORER 23
DecayedPayloadLEO
EXPLORER 23 is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 6, 1964 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 6, 1964 at 12:02 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Scout X-4 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Explorer 23
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 177 km
- Periapsis
- 165 km
- Inclination
- 51.91°
- Orbital period
- 87.91 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 132.8 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-074A
- NORAD catalog №
- 924
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.1473 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 29, 1983
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 29, 1983
- Time in service
- 18.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed