CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2010-0078
LDREX
LDREX (NORAD 26640) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 March 2010, after 9 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
26640
International designator
2000-081C
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Japan
Launched
20 Dec 2000Guiana Space Centre
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Mar 2010UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
9 years, 3 months3,378 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
2.0°N to 2.0°SFinal inclination 2.0°
Mass
140 kg
Operator
NASDA
Built by
Toshiba
Bus
LDREX
Programme
LDREX
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 2.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 2.0°N and 2.0°S.
Life in orbit
9 years, 3 monthsLDREX’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
2000-081
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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