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Rocket body · NORAD 20304 · COSPAR 1989-085C

DELTA 2 R/B(2) [PAM-D]

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

37.39°

Period

89.0 min

89.0 min

Perigee

130km

Apogee

322km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 05 Dec 1991.· Metadata updated 22 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 05 Dec 1991 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
3.7 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • DELTA 2 R/B(2) [PAM-D]Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
21 Oct 1989
COSPAR launch id
1989-085
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
20304
COSPAR / international designator
1989-085C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPCDDFH3TJ6S88RTKH4
Canonical slug
delta-2-r-b-2-pam-d-20304

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.