Explorer 3
American military research satellite
- Instance of
Overview
All data
29 statements · 41% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Launch vehicle
- Juno I serial number: RS-24
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- Juno I serial number: RS-24
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry(June 28, 1958)
- loss of signal(June 5, 1958)
- rocket launch(March 26, 1958) location: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 5
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- Mass
- 14.06 kg criterion used: launch weight
- Time of object orbit decay
- June 28, 1958
- Semi-major axis
- 7,870.7 km
- Eccentricity
- 0.1659
- Inclination
- 33.38 degree
- Orbital period
- 115.7 min
- Apoapsis
- 2,799 km
- Periapsis
- 186 km
On other databases
6 identifiers linking Explorer 3 across the web's reference databases
- COSPAR ID1958-003A
- Freebase ID/m/03kc0p
- Harvard designation1958 Gamma 1
- NSSDCA ID1958-003A
- SCN00006
- Wolfram Language entity codeEntity["Satellite", "00006"]