AEROCUBE 16B

NORAD 59291· COSPAR 2024-053D· Active satellite· Other / Unclassified· LEO

Launch

Launched on Mar 21, 2024 from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 (Launch Area 0 C), United States of America aboard a Electron.

Electron | Live and Let Fly (NROL-123) →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 19:55 UTC

Orbit class

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

Operator

United States Government

Country

United States

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Mar 21, 2024

Mass

—

Apogee

433 km

Perigee

431 km

Inclination

49.99°

Period

1.55 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for AEROCUBE 16B across 59 days of archived orbital elements (60 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Decaying

Change

-5.3 km

Rate

-0.09 km/day

Now

431 × 433 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 2024-053 (Electron | Live and Let Fly (NROL-123)).

MOLA · 59289
AEROCUBE 16A · 59290

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