Payload
EXPLORER 55 (AE-5)
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EXPLORER 55 (AE-5) is a United States payload satellite, launched on November 20, 1975 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 20, 1975 at 02:06 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta 2910 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- AE-E
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 135 km
- Periapsis
- 135 km
- Inclination
- 19.63°
- Orbital period
- 87.19 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 485.63 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-107A
- NORAD catalog №
- 8440
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.5245 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 10, 1981
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 10, 1981
- Time in service
- 5.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed