Rocket body · NORAD 717 · COSPAR 1963-054B
DELTA 1 R/B
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
58.45°
Period
88.1 min
88.1 min
Perigee
175km
Apogee
184km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 05 Oct 1990.· Metadata updated 19 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 05 Oct 1990 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
- 0.8 m²
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
- 21 Dec 1963
- COSPAR launch id
- 1963-054
Objects from the same launch · 4
- DELTA 1 DEB720DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB736DebrisDecayed
- TIROS 8 DEB19396DebrisInactive
- TIROS 8716PayloadUnknown
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
- 717
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1963-054B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJCP6W1J01F09Z6JYDT
- Canonical slug
- delta-1-r-b-717
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.