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Rocket body · NORAD 24770 · COSPAR 1997-016C

ARIANE 44L R/B

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

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

6.50°

Period

88.0 min

88.0 min

Perigee

95km

Apogee

259km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 22 Feb 2012.· Metadata updated 12 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 22 Feb 2012 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
24.7 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • ARIANE 44L R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
FR · France
Country
France FR

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
16 Apr 1997
COSPAR launch id
1997-016
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
24770
COSPAR / international designator
1997-016C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQ5W8GYWNW7XWXCWYZ0
Canonical slug
ariane-44l-r-b-24770

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.