Payload
EXPLORER 3
DecayedPayload
EXPLORER 3 is a United States payload satellite, launched on March 26, 1958. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 26, 1958 at 05:38 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Juno-I →
- Operator
- Army Ballistic Missile Agency
- Mission
- Explorer 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 8.22 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1958-003A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 28, 1958
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 28, 1958
- Time in service
- 94 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed