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Satellite · NORAD 5560 · COSPAR 1971-089A

ASTEX 1

UnknownPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

no element set

Velocity

Inclination

92.71°

Period

99.3 min

99.3 min

Perigee

712km

Apogee

734km

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
Unknown
Object type
Payload
Radar cross-section
8.2 m²

CelesTrak groups

Aliases

  • ASTEX 1Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SATCAT owner code
US · United States

Launch

Launch

Launch page
Launch date
17 Oct 1971
COSPAR launch id
1971-089

Objects from the same launch

No other catalogued object is linked to this launch.

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
5560
COSPAR / international designator
1971-089A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JK8C03V83V7RQ97CY4S
Canonical slug
astex-1-5560

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.

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