Payload
EXPLORER 42 (SAS-1)
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EXPLORER 42 (SAS-1) is a United States payload satellite, launched on December 12, 1970 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 12, 1970 at 10:53 AM UTC
- Launch site
- San Marco Platform, Kenya
- Launched by
- Scout B →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Uhuru
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 272 km
- Periapsis
- 272 km
- Inclination
- 3.03°
- Orbital period
- 89.96 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 141.72 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1970-107A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4797
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.501 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 5, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 5, 1979
- Time in service
- 8.3 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed