UWE-3
Launch
Launched on Nov 21, 2013 from 370/13, Russia aboard a Dnepr 1.
Dnepr 1 | Multipayload mission, 33 satellites →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-24 02:49 UTC
Orbit class
SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)
Operator
DLR
Country
Germany
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Nov 21, 2013
Mass
—
Apogee
610 km
Perigee
546 km
Inclination
97.89°
Period
1.60 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for UWE-3 across 149 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-3.1 km
Rate
-0.02 km/day
Now
546 × 610 km
Apogee Perigee
Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.
Launched with
13 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2013-066 (Dnepr 1 | Multipayload mission, 33 satellites).
- APRIZESAT 7 · 39416
- CUBEBUG-2 (LO-74) · 39440
- NEE-02 KRYSAOR · 39441
- FUNCUBE-1 (AO-73) · 39444
- ZACUBE-1 (TSHEPISOSAT) · 39417
- SKYSAT-A · 39418
- DUBAISAT-2 · 39419
- OPTOS · 39420
- STSAT-3 · 39422
- WNISAT-1 · 39423
- APRIZESAT 8 · 39425
- TRITON-1 · 39427
- GOMX-1 · 39430
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