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Rocket body · NORAD 10856 · COSPAR 1978-044B

DELTA 1 R/B(1)

InactiveRocket bodyOTHERRocket body derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

27.94°

Period

2.3 h

139.8 min

Perigee

1,569km

Apogee

3,524km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 21 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
Rocket body
Object type
Rocket body
Radar cross-section
9.4 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • DELTA 1 R/B(1)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
11 May 1978
COSPAR launch id
1978-044
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 2

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
10856
COSPAR / international designator
1978-044B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMRMDZ035DSK8HQZ873
Canonical slug
delta-1-r-b-1-10856

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