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Satellite · NORAD 49494 · COSPAR 2021-108A

ASTRA SATELLITE 00001

DecayedPayloadLEOCommunications derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

85.97°

Period

87.3 min

87.3 min

Perigee

131km

Apogee

151km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 May 2023.· Metadata updated 8 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 May 2023 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Communications
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—
Constellation membership derived
SES GEO fleet via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • ASTRA SATELLITE 00001Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SES
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
20 Nov 2021
COSPAR launch id
2021-108
Launch site
Pacific Spaceport Complex, Kodiak, Alaska

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
49494
COSPAR / international designator
2021-108A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JVSJDXCXJNDXQRE2V3X
Canonical slug
astra-satellite-00001-49494

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.