Payload
EXPLORER 53
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 7788
EXPLORER 53 is a United States payload satellite, launched on May 7, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- May 7, 1975 at 10:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- San Marco Platform, Kenya
- Launched by
- Scout F-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- SAS 3
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 212 km
- Periapsis
- 211 km
- Inclination
- 3°
- Orbital period
- 88.73 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 191.28 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø0.6 × 1.5 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-037A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7788
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 9, 1979
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 9, 1979
- Time in service
- 3.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed