Payload
EXPLORER 7
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EXPLORER 7 is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 13, 1959 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 13, 1959 at 03:30 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Juno II →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Explorer 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 533 km
- Periapsis
- 426 km
- Inclination
- 50.24°
- Orbital period
- 94.2 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 41.13 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1959-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 22
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.5003 m²
- Status
- active