Explorer 10
Explorer 10 | |
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Type: | Research satellite |
Country: | United States |
Operator: | NASA |
COSPAR-ID : | 1961-010A |
Mission dates | |
Dimensions: | 79 kg |
Begin: | March 25, 1961, 15:17 UTC |
Starting place: | Cape Canaveral , LC-17 |
Launcher: | Thor Delta |
Status: | out of service since March 27, 1961 |
Orbit data | |
Rotation time : | 83.5 min |
Orbit inclination : | 33 ° |
Apogee height : | 180,999 km |
Perigee height : | 220 km |
Eccentricity : | 0.89132 |
Explorer 10 was a satellite of the US space agency NASA as part of the Explorer program . The aim of the mission was to investigate the geomagnetic field and solar corpuscular radiation . Explorer 10 was brought into a highly elliptical orbit and was spin stabilized .
Due to its battery power supply, the satellite was designed for a service life of just 52 hours. He sent data throughout the mission. The latest information was sent from a distance of 42.3 Earth radii. It was the first satellite that could measure the shock wave of a solar flare.
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- Herbert Pfaffe, Peter Stache: spacecraft. A type book , 1972
- Explorer 10 in the NSSDC (English)
- Explorer 10, article on the website of the Goddard Space Flight Center (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Explorer 10 - Launch Information in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed November 27, 2014.