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Sunstorm
European technology demonstration CubeSat space mission. Sunstorm was launched on August 17, 2021 aboard a Vega from Kourou. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (Sep 5, 2024).
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Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Sunstorm
- International designator
- 2021-073C
- NORAD catalog number
- 49068
- GCAT identifier
- S49068
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1019
Mission
- Mission type
- Astronomy
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Reaktor
- Owner
- Reaktor Space
- Country
- Finland
- Builder
- Reaktor Space Lab Ltd
- Platform (bus)
- Cubesat 2U
Launch
- Date
- August 17, 2021 · 01:47 UTC
- Launch record
- 2021-073Success
- Rocket
- Vega
- Spaceport
- Kourou · pad ZLV
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 526 km
- Apogee
- 563 km
- Inclination
- 97.56°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- September 5, 2024
- Last known active
- November 2022
- End of operations
- August 2024
Size
- Mass
- 2 kg
- Dry mass
- 2 kg
- Length
- 0.2 m
- Diameter
- 0.10 m
- Span
- 0.2 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q136469294 (CC0).