CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2000-0284
BATSAT
BATSAT (NORAD 25234) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 9 October 2000, after 2 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
25234
International designator
1998-012B
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
26 Feb 1998Air launch (Pacific)
Re-entered (UTC)
9 Oct 2000UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 7 months956 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.4°N to 82.4°SFinal inclination 97.6°
Mass
69 kg
Operator
Teledesic
Built by
OSC-Germantown
Bus
Microstar
Programme
Teledesic
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 97.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.4°N and 82.4°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 7 monthsBATSAT’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1998-012
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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