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Satellite · NORAD 43006 · COSPAR 2017-071A

CYGNUS OA-8

DecayedPayloadLEOSpace station derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

51.64°

Period

92.2 min

92.2 min

Perigee

373km

Apogee

393km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 18 Dec 2017.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 18 Dec 2017 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Space station
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—
Constellation membership derived
International Space Station via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • CYGNUS OA-8Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
NASA
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
12 Nov 2017
COSPAR launch id
2017-071
Launch site
Wallops Flight Facility / MARS, Virginia

Objects from the same launch · 17

All objects from launch 2017-071 →

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
43006
COSPAR / international designator
2017-071A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTZX0D00E60QR20CF62
Canonical slug
cygnus-oa-8-43006

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