Rocket body · NORAD 11659 · COSPAR 1979-104B
ARIANE 1 R/B
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
17.70°
Period
89.2 min
89.2 min
Perigee
120km
Apogee
348km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 Nov 1982.· Metadata updated 11 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 Nov 1982 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 19.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ARIANE 1 R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- FR · France
- Country
- France FR
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 24 Dec 1979
- COSPAR launch id
- 1979-104
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 34
- ARIANE 1 DEB24754DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 1 DEB25098DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB25763DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 1 DEB25764DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 1 DEB25765DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB25766DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB25767DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB25768DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB25837DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB25939DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 1 DEB26532DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB26533DebrisInactive
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
Transparency
Sources & provenance
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
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 11659
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1979-104B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMW3D5T5KMSDN1K8APS
- Canonical slug
- ariane-1-r-b-11659
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Rocket body) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.