Payload
TROPICS-05
DecayedPayloadLEO
A catalogued spacecraft payload.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 8, 2023 at 01:00 AM UTC
- Launch site
- RLLB
- Launched by
- Electron →
- Operator
- Rocket Lab
- Mission
- TROPICS-2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 213 km
- Periapsis
- 202 km
- Inclination
- 32.71°
- Orbital period
- 88.65 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2023-062A
- NORAD catalog №
- 56442
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 4, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 4, 2025
- Time in service
- 2.6 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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