Rocket body · NORAD 68128 · COSPAR 2026-046B
FIREFLY ALPHA R/B
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
123.09°
Period
91.6 min
91.6 min
Perigee
350km
Apogee
357km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- FIREFLY ALPHA R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 12 Mar 2026
- COSPAR launch id
- 2026-046
Objects from the same launch · 1
- ICOR SV68127PayloadDecayed
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
- 68128
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2026-046B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JX0JMPWEX8W8KDSF6QH
- Canonical slug
- firefly-alpha-r-b-68128
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.