CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2024-0589
FLOCK 4X 19
FLOCK 4X 19 (NORAD 51046) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 April 2024, after 2 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
51046
International designator
2022-002BQ
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
13 Jan 2022Cape Canaveral
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Apr 2024UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 3 months837 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.6°N to 82.6°SFinal inclination 97.4°
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 97.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.6°N and 82.6°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 3 monthsFLOCK 4X 19’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 29 Apr 2024
17 entriesFrom the same launch
2022-002
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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