CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2020-0028
TEPCE
TEPCE (NORAD 44346) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 1 February 2020, after 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
44346
International designator
2019-036H
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
25 Jun 2019Cape Canaveral
Re-entered (UTC)
1 Feb 2020UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
7 months221 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
28.5°N to 28.5°SFinal inclination 28.5°
Mass
2 kg
Operator
NRL
Built by
NRL
Bus
Cubesat 1.5U
Programme
NRL Cube
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 28.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 28.5°N and 28.5°S.
Life in orbit
7 monthsTEPCE’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
2019-0362019-0220OCULUS-ASR SPHERE 12020-0274GPIM2021-0060TBEX-B2021-0082TBEX-A2021-0233FALCONSAT-72021-0265OBJECT Z2021-0383CP-9 LEO2021-0399OBJECT Y2022-0282PROMETHEUS 2-62022-0933BRICSAT 22022-1751ARMADILLO2022-2283LIGHTSAILIn orbitProx-1In orbitNPSAT-1In orbitOrbital Test BedIn orbitCOSMIC-2 FM3In orbitDSXIn orbitCOSMIC-2 FM1
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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