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Debris object · NORAD 38657 · COSPAR 2009-072E

CZ-4C DEB

InactiveDebrisLEODebris derived
  • Operator People's Republic of China
  • Constellation —
  • Country China

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

100.26°

Period

108.8 min

108.8 min

Perigee

1,072km

Apogee

1,274km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
Debris
Object type
Debris
Radar cross-section
0.0 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • CZ-4C DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
PRC · People's Republic of China
Country
China CN

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
15 Dec 2009
COSPAR launch id
2009-072
Launch site
Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

Objects from the same launch · 7

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
38657
COSPAR / international designator
2009-072E
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTAW1JSQXQGJB0BJDZX
Canonical slug
cz-4c-deb-38657

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