Payload
EXPLORER 9
DecayedPayloadLEO
EXPLORER 9 is a United States payload satellite, launched on February 16, 1961 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 16, 1961 at 01:05 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Wallops Island, USA
- Launched by
- Scout X-1 →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 559 km
- Periapsis
- 285 km
- Inclination
- 38.84°
- Orbital period
- 93.01 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 7 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1961-004A
- NORAD catalog №
- 81
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- April 9, 1964
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- April 9, 1964
- Time in service
- 3.1 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed