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W-Series 3
Experimental manufacturing satellite by Varda Space Industries featuring a reentry capsule. W-Series 3 was launched on March 15, 2025 aboard a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg. Latest status in GCAT: deorbited (May 14, 2025).
COSPAR 2025-052QNORAD 63224United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- W-3
- Common name
- W-Series 3
- Payload designation
- Pioneer-03
- International designator
- 2025-052Q
- NORAD catalog number
- 63224
- GCAT identifier
- S63224
- UN registration
- ST/SG/SER.E/1290
Mission
- Mission type
- Technology
- Use
- Commercial
- Program
- Photon
- Owner
- Varda Space
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Rocket Lab USA, Long Beach
- Platform (bus)
- RL Pioneer
Launch
- Date
- March 15, 2025 · 06:43 UTC
- Launch record
- 2025-052Success
- Rocket
- Falcon 9
- Spaceport
- Vandenberg · pad SLC4E
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LLEO/S
- Perigee
- 511 km
- Apogee
- 520 km
- Inclination
- 97.45°
- Status
- Deorbited
- Status date
- May 14, 2025
- Last known active
- May 14, 2025
- End of operations
- May 14, 2025
Size
- Mass
- 275 kg
- Dry mass
- 55 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 300 kg
- Length
- 1.0 m
- Diameter
- 1.40 m
- Span
- 1.4 m
Launched together
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q135191687 (CC0).