Payload
EXPLORER 46 (MTS)
DecayedPayloadLEO
EXPLORER 46 (MTS) is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 13, 1972 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 13, 1972 at 03:10 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Scout D-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Explorer 46
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 231 km
- Periapsis
- 219 km
- Inclination
- 37.66°
- Orbital period
- 89 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 173.44 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-061A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6142
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 11.2227 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 2, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 2, 1979
- Time in service
- 7.2 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed