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Satellite · NORAD 48961 · COSPAR 2021-059CL

ASTROCAST-0202

DecayedPayloadLEOIoT / M2M derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

97.62°

Period

88.6 min

88.6 min

Perigee

198km

Apogee

214km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 05 May 2025.· Metadata updated 8 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 05 May 2025 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
IoT / M2M
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—
Constellation membership derived
Astrocast via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • ASTROCAST-0202Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
Astrocast
SATCAT owner code
SWTZ · Switzerland
Country
Switzerland CH

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
30 Jun 2021
COSPAR launch id
2021-059
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 2021-059 →

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
48961
COSPAR / international designator
2021-059CL
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JVRPPJCYY9B3SW6Q510
Canonical slug
astrocast-0202-48961

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (IoT / M2M) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.