CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2024-0031
XIAOXIANG 3
XIAOXIANG 3 (NORAD 43944) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 January 2024, after 4 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
43944
International designator
2019-005C
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
China
Launched
21 Jan 2019Jiuquan
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Jan 2024UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 11 months1,813 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.5°N to 82.5°SFinal inclination 97.5°
Mass
10 kg
Operator
SpaceTy / Qingteng daxue
Built by
SpaceTy
Bus
Cubesat 6U
Programme
Tianyi
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 97.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.5°N and 82.5°S.
Life in orbit
4 years, 11 monthsXIAOXIANG 3’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 8 Jan 2024
1 entryFrom the same launch
2019-005
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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