Payload
EXPLORER 32 (AE-B)
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EXPLORER 32 (AE-B) is a United States payload satellite, launched on May 25, 1966 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 25, 1966 at 02:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta C1 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Explorer 32
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 162 km
- Periapsis
- 140 km
- Inclination
- 64.49°
- Orbital period
- 87.51 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 224 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1966-044A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2183
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.6511 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 22, 1985
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 22, 1985
- Time in service
- 18.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed