Payload
EXPLORER 54 (AE-D)
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EXPLORER 54 (AE-D) is a United States payload satellite, launched on October 6, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 6, 1975 at 09:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2910 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- AE-D
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 489 km
- Periapsis
- 103 km
- Inclination
- 89.89°
- Orbital period
- 90.43 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 485.63 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-096A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8353
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 12, 1976
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 12, 1976
- Time in service
- 158 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed