Satellite · NORAD 2773 · COSPAR 1967-042A
ARIEL 3 (UK-3)
- Operator United Kingdom
- Constellation —
- Country United Kingdom
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
80.10°
Period
87.9 min
87.9 min
Perigee
163km
Apogee
182km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 Dec 1970.· Metadata updated 18 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 Dec 1970 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 3 (UK-3)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- UK · United Kingdom
- Country
- United Kingdom GB
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 05 May 1967
- COSPAR launch id
- 1967-042
Objects from the same launch · 3
- SCOUT A DEB2859DebrisDecayed
- SCOUT A DEB2860DebrisDecayed
- SCOUT A R/B2774Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 2773
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1967-042A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJQN5RR4JXM9WMCX290
- Canonical slug
- ariel-3-uk-3-2773
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.