Payload
EXPLORER 40 (INJUN 5)
activePayloadMEONORAD 3338
EXPLORER 40 (INJUN 5) is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 8, 1968 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 8, 1968 at 08:12 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout B →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Explorer 39
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 2,475 km
- Periapsis
- 679 km
- Inclination
- 80.66°
- Orbital period
- 117.69 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 68.98 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.76 × 0.74 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1968-066B
- NORAD catalog №
- 3338
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.0726 m²
- Status
- active