Satellite · NORAD 25424 · COSPAR 1997-074E
ETS-VII TARGET
- Operator Japan
- Constellation —
- Country Japan
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
34.97°
Period
95.5 min
95.5 min
Perigee
539km
Apogee
541km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 13 Nov 2015.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 13 Nov 2015 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 15.4 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ETS-VII TARGETCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- JPN · Japan
- Country
- Japan JP
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 27 Nov 1997
- COSPAR launch id
- 1997-074
- Launch site
- Tanegashima Space Center
Objects from the same launch · 4
- TRMM25063PayloadDecayed
- KIKU-7 (ETS-VII)25064PayloadDecayed
- H-2 R/B(1)25065Rocket bodyDecayed
- H-2 R/B(2)25066Rocket 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
- 25424
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1997-074E
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ8NATWHF74HXNN5FWB
- Canonical slug
- ets-vii-target-25424
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.