Satellite · NORAD 19688 · COSPAR 1988-109B
ASTRA 1A
- Operator SES
- Constellation SES GEO fleet
- Country Luxembourg
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
14.83°
Period
1.0 d
1,464.3 min
Perigee
36,269km
Apogee
36,407km
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
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 12.6 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- SES GEO fleet via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ASTRA 1ACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- SES
- SATCAT owner code
- SES · SES
- Country
- Luxembourg LU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 11 Dec 1988
- COSPAR launch id
- 1988-109
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 21
- ARIANE DEB [SPELDA]19690DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 44LP DEB25538DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44LP DEB25539DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44LP DEB25540DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44LP DEB25541DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44LP DEB25542DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44LP DEB25543DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44LP DEB26808DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44LP DEB26810DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44LP DEB26811DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 44LP DEB26812DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44LP DEB33541DebrisInactive
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
- 19688
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1988-109B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JP922NG7PYWKE2KHCGK
- Canonical slug
- astra-1a-19688
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.