Payload
EXPLORER 41 (IMP-5)
DecayedPayloadHEO
EXPLORER 41 (IMP-5) is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 21, 1969 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 21, 1969 at 08:47 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta E1 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- IMP G
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 172,901 km
- Periapsis
- 3,926 km
- Inclination
- 84.55°
- Orbital period
- 4840.78 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 78.3 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-053A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3990
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 23, 1972
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 23, 1972
- Time in service
- 3.5 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed