Space AtlasEXPLORER 12
NORAD 170 · Payload · Reentered 1963-09-30
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1961-08-15 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 38 kg
- Size
- 0.5 × 0.7 m · 1.2 m deployed
- Orbit class
- Highly elliptical
- Perigee × Apogee
- 693 × 76,977 km
- Inclination
- 33.8°
- Period
- 1594.2 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.8437
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).