CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2023-1071
SPACEBEE-17
SPACEBEE-17 (NORAD 46306) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 May 2023, after 2 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
46306
International designator
2020-061AL
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
3 Sep 2020Guiana Space Centre
Re-entered (UTC)
16 May 2023UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 8 months985 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.6°N to 82.6°SFinal inclination 97.4°
Operator
Swarm Tech
Built by
Swarm Tech
Bus
Cubesat 0.25U
Programme
Swarm
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
2 years, 8 monthsSPACEBEE-17’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 16 May 2023
17 entriesFrom the same launch
2020-061
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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