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Satellite · NORAD 771 · COSPAR 1964-015A

ARIEL 2 (UK-2)

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

51.59°

Period

89.2 min

89.2 min

Perigee

196km

Apogee

275km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 18 Nov 1967.· Metadata updated 14 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 18 Nov 1967 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Unknown
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • ARIEL 2 (UK-2)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
UK · United Kingdom
Country
United Kingdom GB

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
27 Mar 1964
COSPAR launch id
1964-015
Launch site
Wallops Flight Facility / MARS, Virginia

Objects from the same launch · 2

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
771
COSPAR / international designator
1964-015A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JJCP6W1J01F09Z6JYFG
Canonical slug
ariel-2-uk-2-771

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.