Space AtlasDYNAMICS EXPLORER 1
NORAD 12624 · Payload · In orbit since 1981
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1981-08-03 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 424 kg
- Size
- 1.1 × 1.4 m · 200 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 463 × 23,226 km
- Inclination
- 90.9°
- Period
- 407.8 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.6248
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.