CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2022-0844
FLOCK 2K 23
FLOCK 2K 23 (NORAD 42859) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 April 2022, after 4 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
42859
International designator
2017-042AL
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
14 Jul 2017Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Apr 2022UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 8 months1,734 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
83.2°N to 83.2°SFinal inclination 96.8°
Mass
5 kg
Operator
Built by
Planet Labs
Bus
Cubesat 3U
Programme
Flock-2/S
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 96.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 83.2°N and 83.2°S.
Life in orbit
4 years, 8 monthsFLOCK 2K 23’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 13 Apr 2022
14 entriesFrom the same launch
2017-042
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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