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Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment
American microsatellite. Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment was launched on April 15, 2023 aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Oct 4, 2024).
COSPAR 2023-054LNORAD 56188United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- CIRBE
- Common name
- Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment
- International designator
- 2023-054L
- NORAD catalog number
- 56188
- GCAT identifier
- S56188
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1130
Mission
- Mission type
- Space science
- Use
- Amateur / academic
- Program
- UCO
- Owner
- Colorado
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 3U
Launch
- Date
- April 15, 2023 · 06:47 UTC
- Launch record
- 2023-054Success
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC4E
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 496 km
- Apogee
- 507 km
- Inclination
- 97.42°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- October 4, 2024
- Last known active
- Apr 15, 2023
- End of operations
- September 2024
Size
- Mass
- 6 kg
- Dry mass
- 6 kg
- Length
- 0.3 m
- Diameter
- 0.10 m
- Span
- 0.5 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q135274626 (CC0).