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Satellite · NORAD 11153 · COSPAR 1978-116A

ANIK B1 (TELESAT 4)

UnknownPayloadGEOCommunications derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

9.36°

Period

1.0 d

1,442.7 min

Perigee

35,835km

Apogee

35,995km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 11 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Communications
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
7.3 m²
Constellation membership derived
Telesat (Anik / Telstar / Lightspeed) via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • ANIK B1 (TELESAT 4)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
Telesat
SATCAT owner code
CA · Canada
Country
Canada CA

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
16 Dec 1978
COSPAR launch id
1978-116
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 2

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
11153
COSPAR / international designator
1978-116A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMSWGAB1RH93X50S2QV
Canonical slug
anik-b1-telesat-4-11153

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