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Rocket body · NORAD 43701 · COSPAR 2018-090B

FALCON 9 R/B

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived

Altitude now

object decayed

Velocity

Inclination

24.77°

Period

97.6 min

97.6 min

Perigee

109km

Apogee

1,178km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 15 Apr 2019.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 15 Apr 2019 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

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • FALCON 9 R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SATCAT owner code
US · United States

Launch

Launch

Launch page
Launch date
15 Nov 2018
COSPAR launch id
2018-090

Objects from the same launch · 1

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources

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

All 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
43701
COSPAR / international designator
2018-090B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JV2P2MKKM71AC7EK1WN
Canonical slug
falcon-9-r-b-43701

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.