Rocket body · NORAD 26558 · COSPAR 1962-051B
DELTA 1 R/B
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
24.59°
Period
1.5 d
2,175.7 min
Perigee
135km
Apogee
98,346km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 20 Dec 1987.· Metadata updated 32 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 20 Dec 1987 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/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 02 Oct 1962
- COSPAR launch id
- 1962-051
Objects from the same launch · 1
- EXPLORER 14 (SERB 53A)432PayloadDecayed
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
- 26558
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1962-051B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQE9ED0E05F5Y91B5VZ
- Canonical slug
- delta-1-r-b-26558
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.