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Satellite · NORAD 26864 · COSPAR 2001-029B

BSAT-2B

DecayedPayloadLEOCommunications derived
  • Operator Japan
  • Constellation —
  • Country Japan

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

2.97°

Period

89.3 min

89.3 min

Perigee

110km

Apogee

371km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 28 Jan 2014.· Metadata updated 17 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 28 Jan 2014 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

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

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • BSAT-2BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
JPN · Japan
Country
Japan JP

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
12 Jul 2001
COSPAR launch id
2001-029
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

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
26864
COSPAR / international designator
2001-029B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQGT2FWVWCC5KHJ4QE0
Canonical slug
bsat-2b-26864

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.