Payload
EXPLORER 52 (HAWKEYE)
DecayedPayloadHEONORAD 7325
EXPLORER 52 (HAWKEYE) is a United States payload satellite, launched on June 3, 1974 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- June 3, 1974 at 11:09 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Scout E-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Hawkeye 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 126,602 km
- Periapsis
- 802 km
- Inclination
- 83.07°
- Orbital period
- 3077.15 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 26.76 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.75 × 0.75 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1974-040A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7325
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 30, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 30, 1978
- Time in service
- 3.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed