CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2024-0346
FLOCK 4V 17
FLOCK 4V 17 (NORAD 46529) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 14 March 2024, after 3 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
46529
International designator
2020-061BF
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
3 Sep 2020Guiana Space Centre
Re-entered (UTC)
14 Mar 2024UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
3 years, 6 months1,288 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.7°N to 82.7°SFinal inclination 97.3°
Mass
6 kg
Operator
Built by
Planet Labs
Bus
Cubesat 3U
Programme
Flock-4
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 97.3°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.7°N and 82.7°S.
Life in orbit
3 years, 6 monthsFLOCK 4V 17’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 14 Mar 2024
9 entriesFrom the same launch
2020-061
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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