This dimension marks whether a spacecraft is still active, retired or lost. Wikipedia notes that most spacecraft "are designed to deorbit themselves" at the end of their working life, while some, like failed upper stages, remain derelict in orbit instead. Browsing by status separates spacecraft still operating from those no longer in service.
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1. Wikipedia: V-2 rocket
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After an altitude of 100 km was selected to define the edge of space, the V-2 rocket also became retroactively the first artificial object to travel into space with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944.
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