2023-072D

NORAD 56746· COSPAR 2023-072D· Active satellite· Other / Unclassified· SSO

Launch

Launched on May 25, 2023 from LC-2, South Korea aboard a KSLV-2 Nuri.

Nuri | NEXTSat-2 & SNIPE →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-24 16:05 UTC

Orbit class

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

Operator

KARI

Country

South Korea

Manufacturer

—

Launched

May 25, 2023

Mass

—

Apogee

173 km

Perigee

163 km

Inclination

97.44°

Period

87.7 min

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for 2023-072D across 31 days of archived orbital elements (32 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Decaying

Change

-125.4 km

Rate

-4.06 km/day

Now

180 × 188 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

6 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2023-072 (Nuri | NEXTSat-2 & SNIPE).

NEXTSAT-2 · 56743
SNIPE 4 · 56744
SNIPE 2 · 56745
2023-072E · 56747
2023-072F · 56748
2023-072G · 56749

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