ITASAT
Launch
Launched on Dec 3, 2018 from Space Launch Complex 4E, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Spaceflight SSO-A →Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 17:16 UTC
Orbit class
SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)
Operator
INPE
Country
Brazil
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Dec 3, 2018
Mass
—
Apogee
519 km
Perigee
501 km
Inclination
97.40°
Period
1.58 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for ITASAT across 103 days of archived orbital elements (104 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-3.6 km
Rate
-0.04 km/day
Now
501 × 519 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
32 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2018-099 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Spaceflight SSO-A).
- MINXSS-2 · 43758
- SNUSAT-2 · 43782
- KAZSTSAT · 43783
- SNUGLITE · 43784
- EAGLET-I · 43790
- ESEO · 43792
- HAWK-B · 43794
- THEA · 43796
- SKYSAT-C12 · 43797
- ASTROCAST 0.1 · 43798
- HAWK-C · 43799
- ICEYE-X2 · 43800
- JY1SAT (JO-97) · 43803
- SUOMI-100 · 43804
- SIRION PATHFINDER-2 · 43759
- EUCROPIS · 43807
- POLAR SCOUT YUKON · 43808
- CENTAURI-1 · 43809
- NEXTSAT-1 · 43811
- GLOBAL-2 · 43812
- FALCONSAT-6 · 43815
- EXCITE · 43819
- SEAHAWK-1 · 43820
- STPSAT-5 · 43762
…and 8 more from this launch.
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