CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2025-1655
CLUSTER II-FM5
CLUSTER II-FM5 (NORAD 26463) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 22 October 2025, after 25 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
26463
International designator
2000-045A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
European Space Agency
Launched
9 Aug 2000Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
22 Oct 2025UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
25 years, 2 months9,205 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
34.0°N to 34.0°SFinal inclination 146.0°
Mass
1,186 kg
Operator
ESA
Built by
Astrium-Frh.
Bus
Cluster
Programme
ESA Cluster
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 146.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 34.0°N and 34.0°S.
Life in orbit
25 years, 2 monthsCLUSTER II-FM5’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 22 Oct 2025
1 entryFrom the same launch
2000-045
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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