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Satellite · NORAD 26406 · COSPAR 2000-039C

BIRD-RUBIN & SL-8 R/B

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived
  • Operator Germany
  • Constellation —
  • Country Germany

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

87.21°

Period

87.0 min

87.0 min

Perigee

120km

Apogee

135km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 30 Aug 2001.· Metadata updated 15 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 30 Aug 2001 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

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

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • BIRD-RUBIN & SL-8 R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
GER · Germany
Country
Germany DE

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
15 Jul 2000
COSPAR launch id
2000-039
Launch site
Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Objects from the same launch · 2

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
26406
COSPAR / international designator
2000-039C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQE9ED0E05F5Y91B5Q9
Canonical slug
bird-rubin-sl-8-r-b-26406

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.