CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2023-0147
FLOCK 3P 9
FLOCK 3P 9 (NORAD 41973) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 January 2023, after 5 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
41973
International designator
2017-008AB
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
15 Feb 2017Sriharikota
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Jan 2023UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 11 months2,172 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.8°N to 82.8°SFinal inclination 97.2°
Mass
5 kg
Operator
Built by
Planet Labs
Bus
Cubesat 3U
Programme
Flock-3
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 97.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.8°N and 82.8°S.
Life in orbit
5 years, 11 monthsFLOCK 3P 9’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 Jan 2023
18 entriesFrom the same launch
2017-008
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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