● ORBIT ING-NOW

MICRODRAGON

NORAD 43935 · COSPAR 2019-003D · REENTRY☠️ RIP
MICRODRAGON reentered Earth's atmosphere (approx. 2 years ago).
Orbit: #31859 @ 171 x 180 km x 97.0467 deg
CURRENT ORBIT DATA
TLE epoch 2024-09-30 18:38 UTC · 17842.2 h old

Orbit history

// altitude & velocity from orbital-data archive
Trend: —
Altitude —
Velocity —

Next visible passes

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Current TLE

// celestrak
MICRODRAGON
1 43935U 19003D 24274.77655434 .06998047 23376-5 85418-3 0 9995
2 43935 97.0467 293.2379 0007080 246.4835 113.5720 16.36331076318592
TLE data & history 🚀 Launch manifest

Spacecraft info

// UCS Satellite Database
Launch date
January 18th 2019
Spacecraft age
7 years, 8 months
Distance travelled
—
Expected lifetime
—
Operator
Vietnam National Space Center
Purpose
Earth Observation
Orbit class
LEO · Sun-Synchronous
Launch site
Uchinoura Space Center
Launch vehicle
Epsilon
Contractor
Built by Vietnamese engineers studying in Japan.
Launch mass
51 kg
Power
—

Orbit elements

// from current orbital elements
Inclination
97.0467°
Period
88 min
Perigee
171 km
Apogee
180 km
Eccentricity
0.000708
RAAN
293.2379°
Arg of Perigee
246.4835°
Mean Motion
16.36331076 rev/d