ASTRANIS UTILITYSAT

NORAD 62454· COSPAR 2024-252A· Active satellite· Communications· HEO

Launch

Launched on Dec 29, 2024 from Space Launch Complex 40, United States of America aboard a Falcon 9 Block 5.

Falcon 9 Block 5 | Astranis: From One to Many (4x Astranis MicroGEO) →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-22 16:39 UTC

Orbit class

HEO — Highly Elliptical (Molniya, Tundra, GTO)

Operator

UK Space Agency

Country

United Kingdom

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Dec 29, 2024

Mass

—

Apogee

67,657 km

Perigee

3,916 km

Inclination

9.13°

Period

23.93 h

Altitude history

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

Trend

Decaying

Change

-4.3 km

Rate

-0.07 km/day

Now

3916 × 67657 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

3 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2024-252 (Falcon 9 Block 5 | Astranis: From One to Many (4x Astranis MicroGEO)).

NUVIEW ALPHA · 62455
AGILA · 62456
NUVIEW BRAVO · 62457

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