Rocket body · NORAD 40942 · COSPAR 2015-054C
ARIANE 5 R/B
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
6.53°
Period
8.2 h
492.0 min
Perigee
206km
Apogee
28,327km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 8 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
- 32.9 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
- 30 Sept 2015
- COSPAR launch id
- 2015-054
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 3
- ARIANE 5 DEB [SYLDA]40943DebrisDecayed
- SKY MUSTER 1 (NBN1A)40940PayloadActive
- ARSAT 240941PayloadActive
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
- 40942
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2015-054C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JTN11DX2DFQVEERGAGH
- Canonical slug
- ariane-5-r-b-40942
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.