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Rocket body · NORAD 11154 · COSPAR 1978-116B

DELTA 1 R/B(1)

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

28.34°

Period

88.4 min

88.4 min

Perigee

131km

Apogee

264km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 23 Apr 1979.· Metadata updated 11 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 23 Apr 1979 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Rocket body
Object type
Rocket body
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • DELTA 1 R/B(1)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
16 Dec 1978
COSPAR launch id
1978-116
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
11154
COSPAR / international designator
1978-116B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JMSWGAB1RH93X50S2QW
Canonical slug
delta-1-r-b-1-11154

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.