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Arctic Weather Satellite
European weather satellite. Arctic Weather Satellite was launched on August 16, 2024 aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 2024-149CZNORAD 60563United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Flock 4be-19
- Common name
- Arctic Weather Satellite
- Payload designation
- Dove 2518
- International designator
- 2024-149CZ
- NORAD catalog number
- 60563
- GCAT identifier
- S60563
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1229
Mission
- Mission type
- Optical imaging
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Flock-4
- Owner
- Planet
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Planet Labs, Inc. (Planet)
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 3U
Launch
- Date
- August 16, 2024 · 18:56 UTC
- Launch record
- 2024-149Success
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC4E
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 505 km
- Apogee
- 516 km
- Inclination
- 97.44°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- Aug 16, 2024
Size
- Mass
- 6 kg
- Dry mass
- 6 kg
- Length
- 0.3 m
- Diameter
- 0.10 m
- Span
- 0.3 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q105836035 (CC0).