HAWK-5B

NORAD 52756· COSPAR 2022-057AA· Active satellite· CubeSats & Tech Demos· SSO

Launch

Launched on May 25, 2022 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 5 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare) →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-09 12:42 UTC

Orbit class

SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)

Operator

United States Government

Country

United States

Manufacturer

—

Launched

May 25, 2022

Mass

—

Apogee

413 km

Perigee

405 km

Inclination

97.67°

Period

1.54 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for HAWK-5B across 103 days of archived orbital elements (104 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Decaying

Change

-10.1 km

Rate

-0.10 km/day

Now

405 × 413 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

9 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2022-057 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 5 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)).

HAWK-5A · 52757
VIGORIDE-3 · 52760
ION SCV-006 · 52761
SHERPA-AC1 · 52763
OMNI-L2 · 52771
GHGSAT-C3 · 52737
GHGSAT-C5 · 52744
GHGSAT-C4 · 52746
HAWK-5C · 52754

Sources & further reading

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