// optical imaging · 2023
EYE
Ultra-small satellite. EYE was launched on January 3, 2023 aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Mar 4, 2025).
COSPAR 2023-001BRNORAD 55072Japan
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- EYE
- Payload designation
- STAR SPHERE 1
- International designator
- 2023-001BR
- NORAD catalog number
- 55072
- GCAT identifier
- S55072
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1132
Mission
- Mission type
- Optical imaging
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Sony
- Owner
- Sony CSL
- Country
- Japan
- Builder
- Tokyo University
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 6U
Launch
- Date
- January 3, 2023 · 14:55 UTC
- Launch record
- 2023-001Success
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC40
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 518 km
- Apogee
- 537 km
- Inclination
- 97.50°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- March 4, 2025
- Last known active
- Feb 28, 2023
- End of operations
- January 2025
Size
- Mass
- 10 kg
- Dry mass
- 10 kg
- Length
- 0.3 m
- Diameter
- 0.20 m
- Span
- 0.3 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q130680544 (CC0).