Payload
EXPLORER 6
DecayedPayloadHEO
EXPLORER 6 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 7, 1959 into HEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 7, 1959 at 02:24 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Able III →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Explorer 6
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 42,276 km
- Periapsis
- 251 km
- Inclination
- 46.95°
- Orbital period
- 762.25 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 63.43 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1959-004A
- NORAD catalog №
- 15
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 30, 1961
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 30, 1961
- Time in service
- 1.9 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed