CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2010-0286
LDREX 2
LDREX 2 (NORAD 29496) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 30 September 2010, after 3 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
29496
International designator
2006-043C
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Japan
Launched
13 Oct 2006Guiana Space Centre
Re-entered (UTC)
30 Sep 2010UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
3 years, 11 months1,448 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
7.2°N to 7.2°SFinal inclination 7.2°
Mass
149 kg
Operator
JAXA
Built by
JAXA
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 7.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 7.2°N and 7.2°S.
Life in orbit
3 years, 11 monthsLDREX 2’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 30 Sep 2010
3 entriesFrom the same launch
2006-043
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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