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Satellite · NORAD 11645 · COSPAR 1979-104A

CAT 1

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

17.72°

Period

93.4 min

93.4 min

Perigee

102km

Apogee

783km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 27 Nov 1989.· Metadata updated 17 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 27 Nov 1989 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

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

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • CAT 1Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
European Space Agency
SATCAT owner code
ESA · European Space Agency
Country
—

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
24 Dec 1979
COSPAR launch id
1979-104
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 34

All objects from launch 1979-104 →

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
11645
COSPAR / international designator
1979-104A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMW3D5T5KMSDN1K8APB
Canonical slug
cat-1-11645

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.