Payload
SPACEBEENZ-18
DecayedPayloadLEO
SPACEBEENZ-18 is a Swarm Technologies payload satellite, launched on May 2, 2022 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 2, 2022 at 10:49 PM UTC
- Launch site
- RLLB
- Launched by
- Electron →
- Operator
- Rocket Lab
- Mission
- There and Back Again (Rideshare)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 196 km
- Periapsis
- 182 km
- Inclination
- 97.37°
- Orbital period
- 88.28 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Swarm Technologies
- Manufacturer
- Swarm Technologies
- Users
- Commercial
- Launch mass
- 0.28 kg
- Design lifetime
- 2 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2022-047E
- NORAD catalog №
- 52398
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- NZLNew Zealand
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- January 2, 2024
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- January 2, 2024
- Time in service
- 1.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed
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