Baby Come BackRideshare

Success Rocket Lab, Electron

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Mission

Dedicated Rideshare · LEO

The "Baby Come Back" mission includes NASA's Starling project, which consists of four CubeSats designed to test technologies for future swarm missions. Telesat contributes the LEO 3 demonstration satellite, ensuring continuity for customers and ecosystem vendor testing. Additionally, two 3U…

What it put in orbit

Passes over you For a few days after launch the 6 satellites fly one behind another, a “train” you can see as a line of moving stars. When will it cross your sky?

ObjectTypeOrbitGlobe
STARLING 4 2023-100A Payload 540 × 550 km · 99.5° Globe
STARLING 2 2023-100B Payload 541 × 549 km · 99.5° Globe
STARLING 1 2023-100C Payload 542 × 548 km · 99.5° Globe
STARLING 3 2023-100D Payload 521 × 529 km · 99.5° Globe
LEMUR-2-MANO 2023-100E Payload re-entered 2026-05-25
LEMUR-2-DEVERILL-M-T 2023-100F Payload 425 × 432 km · 99.4° Globe
LEO 3 2023-100G Payload 991 × 1019 km · 99.6° Globe
ELECTRON KICK STAGE R/B 2023-100H Rocket body 449 × 868 km · 99.3° Globe
Show all 9 objects
ELECTRON R/B 2023-100J Rocket body re-entered 2023-08-03

COSPAR ID 2023-100 (data from GCAT, J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0). Orbits from the CelesTrak satellite catalogue (perigee × apogee, inclination).

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