Satellite · NORAD 8585 · COSPAR 1976-004A
CTS
- Operator Canada
- Constellation —
- Country Canada
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
3.72°
Period
23.9 h
1,436.6 min
Perigee
35,724km
Apogee
35,869km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 3.2 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- CTSCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CA · Canada
- Country
- Canada CA
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 17 Jan 1976
- COSPAR launch id
- 1976-004
Objects from the same launch · 5
- DELTA 1 DEB8587DebrisDecayed
- CTS DEB [ARRAY COVER]39688DebrisInactive
- CTS DEB [ARRAY COVER]39689DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 R/B(1)8586Rocket bodyDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B(2)8598Rocket bodyDecayed
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
Transparency
Sources & provenance
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
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 8585
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1976-004A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMBK9PSYR3G806J1WEN
- Canonical slug
- cts-8585
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.