Rocket body · NORAD 6779 · COSPAR 1971-116B
ATLAS CENTAUR R/B
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
28.42°
Period
10.9 h
655.5 min
Perigee
653km
Apogee
36,582km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 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
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- Radar cross-section
- 14.8 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ATLAS CENTAUR R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 20 Dec 1971
- COSPAR launch id
- 1971-116
Objects from the same launch · 1
- INTELSAT 4-F35709PayloadUnknown
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
- 6779
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1971-116B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKFFNCZSEEK2BB19FDH
- Canonical slug
- atlas-centaur-r-b-6779
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Rocket body) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.