Payload
EXPLORER 8
DecayedPayloadLEO
EXPLORER 8 is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 3, 1960 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 3, 1960 at 05:23 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Juno II →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Explorer 8
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 177 km
- Periapsis
- 158 km
- Inclination
- 49.88°
- Orbital period
- 87.84 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 40.63 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 60
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.452 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 28, 2012
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 28, 2012
- Time in service
- 51.4 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed