CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2011-0069
ORBVIEW 3
ORBVIEW 3 (NORAD 27838) was deorbited in a controlled re-entry on 13 March 2011, after 7 years, 8 months in orbit.
Controlled re-entryOfficial date
NORAD number
27838
International designator
2003-030A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
26 Jun 2003Air launch (Pacific)
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Mar 2011UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
7 years, 8 months2,817 days
How it ended
Deorbited (controlled re-entry)
Latitude range
83.0°N to 83.0°SFinal inclination 97.0°
Mass
304 kg
Operator
Orbimage
Built by
OSC-McLean
Bus
Leostar-2
Programme
OrbView
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
7 years, 8 monthsORBVIEW 3’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 13 Mar 2011
1 entryFrom the same launch
2003-030
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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