Payload
EXPLORER 44 (SOLRAD-10)
DecayedPayloadLEO
EXPLORER 44 (SOLRAD-10) is a United States payload satellite, launched on July 8, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 8, 1971 at 10:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Scout B →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Solrad 10
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 213 km
- Periapsis
- 205 km
- Inclination
- 51.06°
- Orbital period
- 88.68 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 116.95 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-058A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5317
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.0739 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 15, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 15, 1979
- Time in service
- 8.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed