Debris object · NORAD 3848 · COSPAR 1968-055C
EXPLORER 38 DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
120.83°
Period
3.7 h
224.1 min
Perigee
5,823km
Apogee
5,865km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- Radar cross-section
- 0.7 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- EXPLORER 38 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 04 Jul 1968
- COSPAR launch id
- 1968-055
Objects from the same launch · 19
- DELTA 1 DEB4841DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB25270DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB26672DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB26673DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB27480DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB27481DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB27624DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB28266DebrisInactive
- EXPLORER 38 DEB28608DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB28665DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB28666DebrisInactive
- DELTA 1 DEB28667DebrisInactive
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
- 3848
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1968-055C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJYDTERSCSD23Z2A7HV
- Canonical slug
- explorer-38-deb-3848
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.