CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2018-0089
XTE
XTE (NORAD 23757) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 30 April 2018, after 22 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
23757
International designator
1995-074A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
30 Dec 1995Cape Canaveral
Re-entered (UTC)
30 Apr 2018UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
22 years, 4 months8,157 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
23.0°N to 23.0°SFinal inclination 23.0°
Mass
2,955 kg
Operator
GSFC
Built by
GSFC
Bus
XTE
Programme
DeltaEx
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 23.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 23.0°N and 23.0°S.
Life in orbit
22 years, 4 monthsXTE’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1995-074
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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