EXPLORER 40 (INJUN 5)
NORAD 3338 · Payload · In orbit since 1968
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1968-08-08 · Vandenberg, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 70 kg
- Size
- 0.7 × 0.8 m · 5 m deployed
- Orbit class
- MEO
- Perigee × Apogee
- 679 × 2,475 km
- Inclination
- 80.7°
- Period
- 117.5 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.1130
- 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.