CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2019-0261
SLATS
SLATS (NORAD 43066) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 1 October 2019, after 1 year, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
43066
International designator
2017-082B
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Japan
Launched
23 Dec 2017Tanegashima
Re-entered (UTC)
1 Oct 2019UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 9 months647 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.9°N to 81.9°SFinal inclination 98.1°
Mass
400 kg
Operator
JAXA
Built by
MELCO
Bus
SLATS
Programme
JAXA Tech
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 98.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.9°N and 81.9°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 9 monthsSLATS’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
2017-082
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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