Satellite · NORAD 4344 · COSPAR 1970-017A
DIAL-WIKA
- Operator Germany
- Constellation —
- Country Germany
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
5.40°
Period
94.0 min
94.0 min
Perigee
282km
Apogee
661km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 05 Oct 1978.· Metadata updated 2 d ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 05 Oct 1978 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 0.7 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- DIAL-WIKACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- GER · Germany
- Country
- Germany DE
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 10 Mar 1970
- COSPAR launch id
- 1970-017
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 1
- DIAL-MIKA & DIAMANT R/B4345PayloadDecayed
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
- 4344
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1970-017A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JK1151VSFGQ1443J34T
- Canonical slug
- dial-wika-4344
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.