Payload
EXPLORER 45 (SSS-A)
DecayedPayloadLEO
EXPLORER 45 (SSS-A) is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 15, 1971 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 15, 1971 at 05:52 AM UTC
- Launch site
- San Marco Platform, Kenya
- Launched by
- Scout B →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- SSS 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 572 km
- Periapsis
- 130 km
- Inclination
- 3.6°
- Orbital period
- 91.56 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 51.54 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-096A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5598
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 2.5027 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 10, 1992
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 10, 1992
- Time in service
- 20.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed