Explorer 6
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NASA earth science satellite launched in 1959
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 64.4
- Orbital period
- 765
- Image
- Explorer 6 paddles up.jpg
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- periapsis
- 245
- Commons category
- Explorer 6
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1959-08-07
- time of object orbit decay
- 1961-07-01
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.7588
- orbital inclination
- 47
- apoapsis
- 42400
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