Rocket body · NORAD 41472 · COSPAR 2016-028B
FALCON 9 R/B
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
23.67°
Period
100.0 min
100.0 min
Perigee
99km
Apogee
1,417km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 15 Sept 2016.· Metadata updated 10 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 15 Sept 2016 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 17.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- FALCON 9 R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 06 May 2016
- COSPAR launch id
- 2016-028
Objects from the same launch · 1
- JCSAT-2B41471PayloadActive
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
- 41472
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2016-028B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JTQZXQWV2KQFHFRJMXD
- Canonical slug
- falcon-9-r-b-41472
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Rocket body) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.