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Satellite · NORAD 20685 · COSPAR 1990-059A

BADR-1

DecayedPayloadLEOCommunications derived
  • Operator Pakistan
  • Constellation —
  • Country Pakistan

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

28.47°

Period

87.5 min

87.5 min

Perigee

127km

Apogee

170km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 08 Dec 1990.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 08 Dec 1990 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Communications
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
0.6 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • BADR-1Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
PAKI · Pakistan
Country
Pakistan PK

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
16 Jul 1990
COSPAR launch id
1990-059
Launch site
Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 1

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
20685
COSPAR / international designator
1990-059A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPEH6NW3VTACEV6MZZC
Canonical slug
badr-1-20685

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.