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Class: Solar. Destination: High Earth Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA.

Solar wind experiments. Follow-on to Injun.

Typical orbit: 469 km x 125569 km at 89 degrees inclination. Mass: 27 kg (59 lb).

Hawkeye Chronology

1974 June 3 - Explorer 52 - Program: Explorer. Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Complex: SLC5. Launch Vehicle: Scout. Mass: 27 kg (59 lb). Perigee: 469 km (291 mi). Apogee: 125,569 km (78,024 mi). Inclination: 89.00 deg. Period: 3,032.00 min.
Solar wind experiments. Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere or outer space (US Cat B).

Bibliography:

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page (launch records), Harvard University, 1997-present. Web Address when accessed: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Web Address when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.
McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Web Address when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

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