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Debris object · NORAD 18571 · COSPAR 1987-078F

ARIANE 3 DEB

InactiveDebrisOTHERDebris derived
  • Operator France
  • Constellation —
  • Country France

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

6.77°

Period

5.3 h

317.3 min

Perigee

451km

Apogee

17,612km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
11.1 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • ARIANE 3 DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
FR · France
Country
France FR

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
16 Sept 1987
COSPAR launch id
1987-078
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 6

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
18571
COSPAR / international designator
1987-078F
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JP2YGF4X52XDJAV57KJ
Canonical slug
ariane-3-deb-18571

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.