HAWK-6B

NORAD 55324· COSPAR 2023-011A· Active satellite· CubeSats & Tech Demos· LEO

Launch

Launched on Jan 24, 2023 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), United States of America aboard a Electron.

Electron | Virginia is for Launch Lovers (Hawk 6A-C) →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-09 05:36 UTC

Orbit class

LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)

Operator

United States Government

Country

United States

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Jan 24, 2023

Mass

—

Apogee

507 km

Perigee

502 km

Inclination

40.50°

Period

1.58 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for HAWK-6B across 103 days of archived orbital elements (104 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Decaying

Change

-2.5 km

Rate

-0.02 km/day

Now

502 × 507 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

2 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2023-011 (Electron | Virginia is for Launch Lovers (Hawk 6A-C)).

HAWK-6C · 55326
HAWK-6A · 55327

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