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Satellite · NORAD 43600 · COSPAR 2018-066A

AEOLUS

DecayedPayloadLEOScience derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

96.70°

Period

87.0 min

87.0 min

Perigee

85km

Apogee

161km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 28 Jul 2023.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 28 Jul 2023 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Science
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
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CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • AEOLUSCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
European Space Agency
SATCAT owner code
ESA · European Space Agency
Country
—

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
22 Aug 2018
COSPAR launch id
2018-066
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch

No other catalogued object is linked to this launch.

Change log

History

No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.

Regulatory

UN registration

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.

Field provenance

No field-level provenance recorded.

Timeline

Events

All events →

No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.

Reference

Identifiers

NORAD catalogue number
43600
COSPAR / international designator
2018-066A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JV153PK9Y0R38H9PSCK
Canonical slug
aeolus-43600

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Science) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.