Descripción : Explorer 10 satellite. The mission objective was to investigate the magnetic fields and plasma as the spacecraft passed through the earth`s magnetosphere and into cislunar space. The satellite was launched into a highly elliptical orbit.
Because of the limited lifetime of the spacecraft batteries, the only useful data were transmitted in real time for 52 h on the ascending portion of the first orbit. The distance from the earth when the last bit of useful information was transmitted was 42.3 earth radii, and the local time at this point was 2200 h. All transmission ceased several hours later.

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