Satellite · NORAD 12848 · COSPAR 1981-094A
AUREOLE 3
- Operator France
- Constellation —
- Country France
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
82.46°
Period
98.6 min
98.6 min
Perigee
372km
Apogee
1,013km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- 4.2 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- AUREOLE 3Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- FR · France
- Country
- France FR
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 21 Sept 1981
- COSPAR launch id
- 1981-094
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 1
- SL-14 R/B12849Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 12848
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1981-094A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JN3K8TJJ4HEYXYF75XT
- Canonical slug
- aureole-3-12848
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.