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Satellite · NORAD 38769 · COSPAR 2012-048M

AEROCUBE 4

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

64.67°

Period

96.7 min

96.7 min

Perigee

491km

Apogee

708km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 02 Mar 2021.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 02 Mar 2021 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

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

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • AEROCUBE 4Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
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SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
13 Sept 2012
COSPAR launch id
2012-048
Launch site
Vandenberg Space Force Base (Western Range), California

Objects from the same launch · 13

All objects from launch 2012-048 →

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
38769
COSPAR / international designator
2012-048M
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTAW1JSQXQGJB0BJE31
Canonical slug
aerocube-4-38769

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