Payload
PEARL WHITE 1
DecayedPayloadLEONORAD 44497
PEARL WHITE 1 is a Tiger Innovations payload satellite, launched on August 19, 2019 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
Launch
- Launch date
- August 19, 2019 at 12:12 PM UTC
- Launch site
- RLLB
- Launched by
- Electron →
- Operator
- Rocket Lab
- Mission
- Look Ma, No Hands (Rideshare)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 190 km
- Periapsis
- 179 km
- Inclination
- 44.98°
- Orbital period
- 88.18 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Tiger Innovations
- Manufacturer
- Tiger Innovations
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 10 kg
- Dimensions
- 0.3 × 0.2 × 0.3 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2019-054C
- NORAD catalog №
- 44497
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 4, 2025
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 4, 2025
- Time in service
- 5.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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