CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2025-0496
ESAIL
ESAIL (NORAD 46273) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 3 March 2025, after 4 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
46273
International designator
2020-061B
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Canada
Launched
3 Sep 2020Guiana Space Centre
Re-entered (UTC)
3 Mar 2025UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
4 years, 6 months1,642 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.8°N to 82.8°SFinal inclination 97.2°
Mass
112 kg
Operator
exactEarth
Built by
LuxSpace
Bus
Triton-2
Programme
ComDev
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 97.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.8°N and 82.8°S.
Life in orbit
4 years, 6 monthsESAIL’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 3 Mar 2025
4 entriesFrom the same launch
2020-061
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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