Space AtlasEXPLORER 6
NORAD 15 · Payload · Reentered 1961-06-30
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- 1959-08-07 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 40 kg
- Size
- 0.7 × 0.7 m · 2.2 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 251 × 42,276 km
- Inclination
- 47.0°
- Period
- 762.0 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.7604
- 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.