Payload
EXPLORER 17 (S-6)
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Explorer 17 was a NASA satellite, launched at Cape Canaveral from LC-17B on a Delta B launch vehicle, on 3 April 1963, at 02:00:02 GMT, to study the Earth's upper atmosphere. It was the first satellite of five in the "Atmosphere Explorer" series.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 3, 1963 at 02:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Explorer 17
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 186 km
- Periapsis
- 151 km
- Inclination
- 57.64°
- Orbital period
- 87.86 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 183.35 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 564
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 24, 1966
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 24, 1966
- Time in service
- 3.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed