Explorer 8
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| Organization: | Army Ballistic Missile Agency |
| Major contractors: | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Mission type: | Earth Science |
| Satellite of: | Earth |
| Launch: | 3 November , 1960 at 05:16:00 UTC |
| Launch vehicle: | Jupiter-C |
| Decay: | |
| Mission duration: | 54 days |
| Mass: | 40.88 kg |
| NSSDC ID: | 1960-014A |
| Webpage: | [1] |
| Orbital elements | |
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| Semimajor axis: | |
| Eccentricity: | .120936 |
| Inclination: | 33.24° |
| Orbital period: | 112.7 minutes |
| Apogee: | 2,288 km |
| Perigee: | 417 km |
| Orbits: | |
| Instruments | |
| Geiger-Mueller detector : | Detection of cosmic rays |
| Wire grid array : | Micrometeorite detection |
| Acoustic detector : | Micrometeorite detection |
| Previous mission: Explorer 7 |
Explorer program | Next mission: Explorer 9 |
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