CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2025-1658
MIRATA
MIRATA (NORAD 43015) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 October 2025, after 7 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
43015
International designator
2017-073C
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
United States
Launched
18 Nov 2017Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Oct 2025UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
7 years, 11 months2,896 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.5°N to 82.5°SFinal inclination 97.5°
Mass
4 kg
Operator
MIT / MIT-LL
Built by
MIT
Bus
Cubesat 3U
Programme
MIT Cube
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 97.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.5°N and 82.5°S.
Life in orbit
7 years, 11 monthsMIRATA’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 23 Oct 2025
4 entriesFrom the same launch
2017-073
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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