CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2023-0655
FLOCK 2P 3
FLOCK 2P 3 (NORAD 41618) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 28 March 2023, after 6 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
41618
International designator
2016-040V
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
22 Jun 2016Sriharikota
Re-entered (UTC)
28 Mar 2023UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
6 years, 9 months2,470 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-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 97.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.8°N and 82.8°S.
Life in orbit
6 years, 9 monthsFLOCK 2P 3’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Came down with FLOCK 2P 3
23 entriesFrom the same launch
2016-040
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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