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Debris object · NORAD 18955 · COSPAR 1988-006D

DMSP 5D-2 F9 DEB

DecayedDebrisLEODebris derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.63°

Period

88.6 min

88.6 min

Perigee

192km

Apogee

218km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 30 Jun 1995.· Metadata updated 23 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 30 Jun 1995 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Debris
Object type
Debris
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
0.1 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • DMSP 5D-2 F9 DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

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

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
03 Feb 1988
COSPAR launch id
1988-006
Launch site
Vandenberg Space Force Base (Western Range), California

Objects from the same launch · 12

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
18955
COSPAR / international designator
1988-006D
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JP5YR60YP1V514XEVXR
Canonical slug
dmsp-5d-2-f9-deb-18955

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.