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Debris object · NORAD 42488 · COSPAR 1989-006CQ

ARIANE 2 DEB

InactiveDebrisHEODebris derived
  • Operator France
  • Constellation —
  • Country France

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

9.20°

Period

10.8 h

647.2 min

Perigee

865km

Apogee

35,950km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 17 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
Debris
Object type
Debris
Radar cross-section
0.2 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • ARIANE 2 DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
FR · France
Country
France FR

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
27 Jan 1989
COSPAR launch id
1989-006
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 1989-006 →

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
42488
COSPAR / international designator
1989-006CQ
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTW8S855MNJX0DKJTJP
Canonical slug
ariane-2-deb-42488

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