Satellite · NORAD 28642 · COSPAR 2005-014A
DART
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
96.55°
Period
87.3 min
87.3 min
Perigee
133km
Apogee
152km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 07 May 2016.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 07 May 2016 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 1.1 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- DARTCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 15 Apr 2005
- COSPAR launch id
- 2005-014
- Launch site
- Western Range Airspace (air launch)
Objects from the same launch · 1
- PEGASUS R/B28643Rocket 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
- 28642
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2005-014A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQTQ1Z258XRQWN3AEY4
- Canonical slug
- dart-28642
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.