Satellite · NORAD 25123 · COSPAR 1997-085A
EARLYBIRD-1
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
97.20°
Period
87.3 min
87.3 min
Perigee
126km
Apogee
150km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 27 Jul 2000.· Metadata updated 11 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 27 Jul 2000 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 2.7 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- EARLYBIRD-1Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 24 Dec 1997
- COSPAR launch id
- 1997-085
- Launch site
- Svobodny Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 2
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
- 25123
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1997-085A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ7JAY3ZRKDH046TYG5
- Canonical slug
- earlybird-1-25123
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.