Satellite · NORAD 6893 · COSPAR 1973-078A
EXPLORER 50 (IMP-8)
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
9.07°
Period
12.1 d
17,381.2 min
Perigee
171,621km
Apogee
260,163km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 19 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- EXPLORER 50 (IMP-8)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 26 Oct 1973
- COSPAR launch id
- 1973-078
Objects from the same launch · 4
- DELTA 1 DEB6894DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB6902DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B(1)6895Rocket bodyDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B(2)6896Rocket bodyInactive
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 6893
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1973-078A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKFFNCZSEEK2BB19FH3
- Canonical slug
- explorer-50-imp-8-6893
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.