CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2002-0329
PICOSAT 7&8 (TETHERED)
PICOSAT 7&8 (TETHERED) (NORAD 26904) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 July 2002, after 1 year, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
26904
International designator
2000-042C
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
19 Jul 2000Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Jul 2002UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 11 months722 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.3°N to 82.3°SFinal inclination 97.7°
Operator
DARPA
Built by
AERO
Bus
Picosat
Programme
MEPSI
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 97.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.3°N and 82.3°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 11 monthsPICOSAT 7&8 (TETHERED)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
2000-042
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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