Payload
EXPLORER 24 (ADI-2)
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 931
EXPLORER 24 (ADI-2) is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 21, 1964 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- November 21, 1964 at 05:09 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout X-4 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Explorer 24 & 25
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 403 km
- Periapsis
- 363 km
- Inclination
- 81.27°
- Orbital period
- 92.22 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 8.6 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø3.66 × 3.66 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-076A
- NORAD catalog №
- 931
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 18, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 18, 1968
- Time in service
- 3.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed