CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2023-0715
FLOCK 3M 3
FLOCK 3M 3 (NORAD 42996) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 4 April 2023, after 5 years, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
42996
International designator
2017-068K
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
31 Oct 2017Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
4 Apr 2023UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 5 months1,981 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.6°N to 82.6°SFinal inclination 97.4°
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 97.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.6°N and 82.6°S.
Life in orbit
5 years, 5 monthsFLOCK 3M 3’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 4 Apr 2023
19 entriesFrom the same launch
2017-068
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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