Satellite · NORAD 20041 · COSPAR 1989-041B
DFS 1
- Operator Germany
- Constellation —
- Country Germany
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
13.95°
Period
23.8 h
1,430.6 min
Perigee
35,620km
Apogee
35,736km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- Radar cross-section
- 2.5 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- DFS 1Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- GER · Germany
- Country
- Germany DE
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 05 Jun 1989
- COSPAR launch id
- 1989-041
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 3
- ARIANE 44L DEB [SPELDA]20043DebrisDecayed
- SUPERBIRD-A20040PayloadUnknown
- ARIANE 44L R/B20042Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 20041
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1989-041B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JPA1FF8HXMJ74Q9SQHQ
- Canonical slug
- dfs-1-20041
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.