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CUTE-LASP
The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) is a 4-year, NASA-funded project to design, build, integrate, test, and operate a 6-unit CubeSat. CUTE-LASP was launched on September 27, 2021 aboard a Atlas V 401 from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Jul 17, 2026).
COSPAR 2021-088DNORAD 49263United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- CUTE
- Common name
- CUTE-LASP
- Payload designation
- CUTE-LASP
- International designator
- 2021-088D
- NORAD catalog number
- 49263
- GCAT identifier
- S49263
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1031
Mission
- Mission type
- Astronomy
- Use
- Amateur / academic
- Program
- UCO
- Owner
- Colorado
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 6U
Launch
- Date
- September 27, 2021 · 18:12 UTC
- Launch record
- 2021-088Success
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC3E
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 550 km
- Apogee
- 574 km
- Inclination
- 97.63°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- July 17, 2026
- Last known active
- December 2023
- End of operations
- June 2026
Size
- Mass
- 10 kg
- Dry mass
- 10 kg
- Length
- 0.3 m
- Diameter
- 0.20 m
- Span
- 1.0 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q111862688 (CC0).