Rocket body · NORAD 20778 · COSPAR 1990-079C
ARIANE 44LP R/B
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
7.37°
Period
92.8 min
92.8 min
Perigee
92km
Apogee
731km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 28 Aug 1993.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 28 Aug 1993 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
- 3.9 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ARIANE 44LP R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- FR · France
- Country
- France FR
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 30 Aug 1990
- COSPAR launch id
- 1990-079
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 3
- ARIANE 44LP DEB [SPELDA]20781DebrisDecayed
- SKYNET 4C20776PayloadUnknown
- EUTELSAT 2-F120777PayloadUnknown
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
- 20778
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1990-079C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JPFZ9DAD0HC7HJV0052
- Canonical slug
- ariane-44lp-r-b-20778
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.