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Ray 1.0
Technology demonstration spacecraft with reentry vehicle launched in 2025. Ray 1.0 was launched on January 14, 2025 aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 2025-009UNORAD 62627United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Ray 1.0
- Payload designation
- Ray
- International designator
- 2025-009U
- NORAD catalog number
- 62627
- GCAT identifier
- S62627
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1270
Mission
- Mission type
- Technology
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Inversion
- Owner
- Inversion Space
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Inversion Space Co.
- Platform (bus)
- Ray
Launch
- Date
- January 14, 2025 · 19:09 UTC
- Launch record
- 2025-009Success
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC4E
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 511 km
- Apogee
- 517 km
- Inclination
- 97.45°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- Apr 16, 2025
- End of operations
- May 1, 2025
Size
- Mass
- 44 kg
- Dry mass
- 32 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 63 kg
- Length
- 0.9 m
- Diameter
- 0.70 m
- Span
- 0.9 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q136650435 (CC0).