Payload
EXPLORER 26 (EPE-D)
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EXPLORER 26 (EPE-D) is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 21, 1964 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1964 at 09:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta C →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Explorer 26
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 268 km
- Periapsis
- 189 km
- Inclination
- 19.69°
- Orbital period
- 89.08 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 45.59 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1964-086A
- NORAD catalog №
- 963
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.67 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 25, 2021
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 25, 2021
- Time in service
- 56.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed