Space AtlasEXPLORER 50 (IMP-8)
NORAD 6893 · Payload · In orbit since 1973
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 1973-10-26 · Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, USA
- Country / operator
- US (United States)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Space science
- Mass
- 273 kg
- Size
- 1.6 × 1.3 m · 125 m deployed
- Orbit class
- MEO
- Perigee × Apogee
- 171,621 × 260,163 km
- Inclination
- 9.1°
- Period
- 17380.4 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.1992
- 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.