Satellite · NORAD 7471 · COSPAR 1974-077A
ARIEL 5 (UK 5)
- Operator United Kingdom
- Constellation —
- Country United Kingdom
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
2.88°
Period
88.4 min
88.4 min
Perigee
196km
Apogee
198km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 Mar 1980.· Metadata updated 8 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 Mar 1980 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 5 (UK 5)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- UK · United Kingdom
- Country
- United Kingdom GB
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 15 Oct 1974
- COSPAR launch id
- 1974-077
- Launch site
- San Marco platform, Formosa Bay
Objects from the same launch · 1
- SCOUT B-1 R/B7472Rocket 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
- 7471
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1974-077A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKJXR529ME2BQSB02G1
- Canonical slug
- ariel-5-uk-5-7471
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.