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RBLE
Radiation belt loss experiment microsatellite. RBLE was launched on August 14, 2017 aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Jun 10, 2021).
COSPAR 1998-067NJNORAD 43021United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Dellingr
- Common name
- RBLE
- International designator
- 1998-067NJ
- NORAD catalog number
- 43021
- GCAT identifier
- S43021
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/877
Mission
- Mission type
- Technology, Space science
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- GSFC Cube
- Owner
- GSFC
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 6U
Launch
- Date
- August 14, 2017 · 16:31 UTC
- Launch record
- 2017-045Success
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC39A
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/I
- Perigee
- 401 km
- Apogee
- 404 km
- Inclination
- 51.64°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- June 10, 2021
- Last known active
- Jun 9, 2021
- End of operations
- Jun 9, 2021
Size
- Mass
- 12 kg
- Dry mass
- 12 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 Q106473302 (CC0).