CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2025-0561
AEROCUBE 4.5B
AEROCUBE 4.5B (NORAD 38768) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 March 2025, after 12 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
38768
International designator
2012-048L
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
13 Sep 2012Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Mar 2025UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
12 years, 6 months4,564 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.6°N to 64.6°SFinal inclination 64.6°
Mass
1 kg
Operator
AERO
Built by
AERO
Bus
Cubesat 1U
Programme
Aerocube
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 64.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.6°N and 64.6°S.
Life in orbit
12 years, 6 monthsAEROCUBE 4.5B’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 13 Mar 2025
8 entriesFrom the same launch
2012-048
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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