Debris object · NORAD 26809 · COSPAR 1988-063J
ARIANE 3 DEB
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
6.53°
Period
8.8 h
525.5 min
Perigee
375km
Apogee
30,010km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- 0.4 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
- 21 Jul 1988
- COSPAR launch id
- 1988-063
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 9
- ARIANE 3 DEB [SYLDA]19335DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 3 DEB20127DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB20488DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB22101DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB25574DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 3 DEB48350DebrisInactive
- INSAT-1C19330PayloadUnknown
- EUTELSAT 1-F5 (ECS 5)19331PayloadUnknown
- ARIANE 3 R/B19332Rocket 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
- 26809
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1988-063J
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQGT2FWVWCC5KHJ4QCA
- Canonical slug
- ariane-3-deb-26809
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.