Rocket body · NORAD 26721 · COSPAR 2001-011C
ARIANE 5 R/B
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
1.46°
Period
10.7 h
641.2 min
Perigee
890km
Apogee
35,618km
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
- 24.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ARIANE 5 R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- FR · France
- Country
- France FR
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 08 Mar 2001
- COSPAR launch id
- 2001-011
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 3
- ARIANE 5 DEB [SYLDA]26722DebrisInactive
- EUTELSAT 133 WEST A26719PayloadUnknown
- BSAT-2A26720PayloadActive
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
- 26721
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2001-011C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQF087GN9SHXKR5YK5V
- Canonical slug
- ariane-5-r-b-26721
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.