Rocket body · NORAD 16657 · COSPAR 1986-026C
ARIANE 3 R/B
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
7.17°
Period
10.6 h
637.7 min
Perigee
437km
Apogee
35,889km
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
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- Radar cross-section
- 10.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ARIANE 3 R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- FR · France
- Country
- France FR
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 28 Mar 1986
- COSPAR launch id
- 1986-026
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 8
- ARIANE 3 DEB [SYLDA]16658DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 3 DEB17253DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB17254DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB24712DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB26805DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 3 DEB27025DebrisInactive
- GSTAR 216649PayloadUnknown
- BRASILSAT 216650PayloadUnknown
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
- 16657
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1986-026C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNRKBPHN5PGCPDS82P0
- Canonical slug
- ariane-3-r-b-16657
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.