Satellite · NORAD 24285 · COSPAR 1996-049A
FAST
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
82.96°
Period
2.0 h
121.7 min
Perigee
347km
Apogee
3,162km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 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
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 1.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- FASTCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 21 Aug 1996
- COSPAR launch id
- 1996-049
Objects from the same launch · 7
- PEGASUS DEB24317DebrisDecayed
- PEGASUS DEB24318DebrisDecayed
- PEGASUS DEB24319DebrisDecayed
- PEGASUS DEB24325DebrisDecayed
- PEGASUS DEB24646DebrisDecayed
- PEGASUS DEB25076DebrisDecayed
- PEGASUS R/B24286Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 24285
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1996-049A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ2NJMSV139MAE1H53C
- Canonical slug
- fast-24285
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.