CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2016-0238
VESSELSAT 2
VESSELSAT 2 (NORAD 38047) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 October 2016, after 4 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
38047
International designator
2012-001B
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Luxembourg
Launched
9 Jan 2012Taiyuan
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Oct 2016UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 9 months1,753 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.6°N to 82.6°SFinal inclination 97.4°
Mass
28 kg
Operator
LuxSpace / Orbcomm
Built by
LuxSpace
Bus
AIS
Programme
LUXS
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 97.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.6°N and 82.6°S.
Life in orbit
4 years, 9 monthsVESSELSAT 2’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
2012-001
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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