Satellite · NORAD 589 · COSPAR 1963-014D
DASH 1
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
87.36°
Period
2.8 h
166.4 min
Perigee
3,594km
Apogee
3,689km
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
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 1.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- DASH 1Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 09 May 1963
- COSPAR launch id
- 1963-014
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- WESTFORD NEEDLES2360DebrisDecayed
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2361DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2362DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2363DebrisDecayed
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2364DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2365DebrisInactive
- WESTFORD NEEDLES2366DebrisDecayed
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
- 589
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1963-014D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJB5PFG65A93N68SCXQ
- Canonical slug
- dash-1-589
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.