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Satellite · NORAD 38774 · COSPAR 2012-050A

BEIDOU-2 M5

UnknownPayloadMEONavigation derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

56.51°

Period

12.9 h

773.2 min

Perigee

21,409km

Apogee

21,643km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
Navigation
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
7.9 m²
Constellation membership derived
BeiDou via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • BEIDOU-2 M5Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
China Satellite Navigation Office
SATCAT owner code
PRC · People's Republic of China
Country
China CN

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
18 Sept 2012
COSPAR launch id
2012-050
Launch site
Xichang Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 3

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
38774
COSPAR / international designator
2012-050A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTAW1JSQXQGJB0BJE35
Canonical slug
beidou-2-m5-38774

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