CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2020-0300
FOSSASAT-1
FOSSASAT-1 (NORAD 44829) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 28 October 2020, after 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
44829
International designator
2019-084F
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Spain
Launched
6 Dec 2019Rocket Lab Launch Complex
Re-entered (UTC)
28 Oct 2020UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 months327 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
83.1°N to 83.1°SFinal inclination 96.9°
Operator
Fossa Systems
Built by
Fossa Systems
Bus
PocketQube 1P
Programme
Fossa
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 96.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 83.1°N and 83.1°S.
Life in orbit
10 monthsFOSSASAT-1’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 28 Oct 2020
1 entryFrom the same launch
2019-084
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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