Satellite · NORAD 25068 · COSPAR 1997-075B
EQUATOR S
- Operator Germany
- Constellation —
- Country Germany
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
2.78°
Period
22.3 h
1,336.1 min
Perigee
502km
Apogee
67,108km
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
- 1.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- EQUATOR SCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- GER · Germany
- Country
- Germany DE
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 02 Dec 1997
- COSPAR launch id
- 1997-075
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 3
- ARIANE 44P DEB [SPELDA]25070DebrisDecayed
- JCSAT-1B25067PayloadUnknown
- ARIANE 44P R/B25069Rocket 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
- 25068
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1997-075B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ6NS62CZBE2442YF91
- Canonical slug
- equator-s-25068
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.