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Rocket body · NORAD 20947 · COSPAR 1990-100C

ARIANE 42P R/B

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived
  • Operator France
  • Constellation —
  • Country France

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

7.09°

Period

95.4 min

95.4 min

Perigee

120km

Apogee

954km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 17 Apr 2026.· Metadata updated 21 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 17 Apr 2026 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
28.4 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • ARIANE 42P R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
FR · France
Country
France FR

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
20 Nov 1990
COSPAR launch id
1990-100
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 3

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
20947
COSPAR / international designator
1990-100C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPGQQFZBRF1ZDZ0BC46
Canonical slug
ariane-42p-r-b-20947

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.