Debris object · NORAD 20229 · COSPAR 1989-053C
ARIANE 3 DEB
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
6.45°
Period
10.3 h
619.3 min
Perigee
420km
Apogee
34,957km
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
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- Radar cross-section
- 8.8 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 date
- 12 Jul 1989
- COSPAR launch id
- 1989-053
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 2
- OLYMPUS20122PayloadUnknown
- ARIANE 3 R/B20123Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 20229
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1989-053C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JPCDDFH3TJ6S88RTKET
- Canonical slug
- ariane-3-deb-20229
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.