MACSAT (FINCH 1)

NORAD 58024· COSPAR 2023-155J· Active satellite· Other / Unclassified· SSO

Launch

Launched on Oct 9, 2023 from Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), French Guiana aboard a Vega.

Vega | THEOS-2, TRITON & others →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-24 05:25 UTC

Orbit class

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

Operator

—

Country

Luxembourg

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Oct 9, 2023

Mass

—

Apogee

507 km

Perigee

504 km

Inclination

97.57°

Period

1.58 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for MACSAT (FINCH 1) across 59 days of archived orbital elements (60 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Decaying

Change

-1.2 km

Rate

-0.02 km/day

Now

504 × 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

9 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2023-155 (Vega | THEOS-2, TRITON & others).

THEOS-2 (T2V) · 58016
FORMOSAT-7R (TRITON) · 58017
ANSER FOLLOWER 2 · 58018
ANSER FOLLOWER 1 · 58019
NESS · 58020
CSC-2 · 58021
CSC-1 · 58022
PRETTY · 58023
PVCC · 58025

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