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Rocket body · NORAD 12494 · COSPAR 1981-049C

DELTA 1 R/B(2)

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

25.81°

Period

97.9 min

97.9 min

Perigee

106km

Apogee

1,213km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 21 Sept 1982.· Metadata updated 13 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 21 Sept 1982 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
0.3 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • DELTA 1 R/B(2)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
22 May 1981
COSPAR launch id
1981-049
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 3

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
12494
COSPAR / international designator
1981-049C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JN1T2KP15BBVVKD051H
Canonical slug
delta-1-r-b-2-12494

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.