CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1998-0349
MSTI 2
MSTI 2 (NORAD 23101) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 28 November 1998, after 4 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
23101
International designator
1994-028A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
9 May 1994Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
28 Nov 1998UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 6 months1,664 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
83.0°N to 83.0°SFinal inclination 97.0°
Mass
169 kg
Operator
AF Phillips/GD / BMDO
Built by
Spectrum Astro
Bus
SA-200S
Programme
MSTI
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 97.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 83.0°N and 83.0°S.
Life in orbit
4 years, 6 monthsMSTI 2’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 28 Nov 1998
1 entryFrom the same launch
1994-028
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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