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Rocket body · NORAD 28499 · COSPAR 2004-049H

ARIANE 5 R/B

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

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.28°

Period

96.9 min

96.9 min

Perigee

552km

Apogee

671km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
16.0 m²

CelesTrak groups

Aliases

  • ARIANE 5 R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
FR · France
Country
France FR

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
18 Dec 2004
COSPAR launch id
2004-049
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 14

All objects from launch 2004-049 →

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
28499
COSPAR / international designator
2004-049H
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQSMGYQFBJ3986JRYAW
Canonical slug
ariane-5-r-b-28499

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.