Rocket body · NORAD 25111 · COSPAR 1997-083B
ARIANE 42L R/B
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
6.75°
Period
91.0 min
91.0 min
Perigee
103km
Apogee
547km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 03 May 2004.· Metadata updated 11 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 03 May 2004 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 12.6 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ARIANE 42L R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- FR · France
- Country
- France FR
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 21 Dec 1997
- COSPAR launch id
- 1997-083
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 1
- INTELSAT 804 (IS-804)25110PayloadUnknown
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
- 25111
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1997-083B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ7JAY3ZRKDH046TYFT
- Canonical slug
- ariane-42l-r-b-25111
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.