CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2011-0252
HAWKSAT 1
HAWKSAT 1 (NORAD 35004) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 4 September 2011, after 2 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
35004
International designator
2009-028D
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
19 May 2009Wallops
Re-entered (UTC)
4 Sep 2011UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 3 months838 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
40.4°N to 40.4°SFinal inclination 40.4°
Mass
1 kg
Operator
HISS
Built by
HISS
Bus
Cubesat 1U
Programme
Hawksat
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 40.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 40.4°N and 40.4°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 3 monthsHAWKSAT 1’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
2009-028
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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