Space AtlasEXPLORER 8
NORAD 60 · Payload · Reentered 2012-03-28
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- 1960-11-03 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 41 kg
- Size
- 0.9 × 0.9 m · 6.1 m deployed
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 158 × 177 km
- Inclination
- 49.9°
- Period
- 87.7 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0015
- 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.