CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2024-1481
SAPLING GIGANTEUM
SAPLING GIGANTEUM (NORAD 56213) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 September 2024, after 1 year, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
56213
International designator
2023-054AM
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
15 Apr 2023Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Sep 2024UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 5 months522 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.7°N to 82.7°SFinal inclination 97.3°
Mass
1 kg
Operator
Stanford SSI
Built by
Stanford SSI
Bus
Cubesat 1U
Programme
Stanford
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
1 year, 5 monthsSAPLING GIGANTEUM’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 18 Sep 2024
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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