Debris object · NORAD 5046 · COSPAR 1971-019D
DELTA 1 DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
28.73°
Period
88.7 min
88.7 min
Perigee
189km
Apogee
229km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 19 Apr 1971.· Metadata updated 23 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 19 Apr 1971 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- DELTA 1 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 13 Mar 1971
- COSPAR launch id
- 1971-019
Objects from the same launch · 4
- DELTA 1 DEB5112DebrisDecayed
- EXPLORER 43 (IMP-6)5043PayloadDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B(1)5044Rocket bodyDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B(2)5045Rocket 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
- 5046
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1971-019D
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK501C3GECCTCBD4VN1
- Canonical slug
- delta-1-deb-5046
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.