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Satellite · NORAD 1516 · COSPAR 1965-068A

GEMINI 5

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

object decayed

Velocity

Inclination

32.61°

Period

89.5 min

89.5 min

Perigee

199km

Apogee

296km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 29 Aug 1965.· Metadata updated 3 d ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 29 Aug 1965 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Unknown
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • GEMINI 5Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
SATCAT owner code
US · United States

Launch

Launch

Launch page
Launch date
21 Aug 1965
COSPAR launch id
1965-068

Objects from the same launch · 3

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
1516
COSPAR / international designator
1965-068A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JJGRANHQWGKWZE60ZMB
Canonical slug
gemini-5-1516

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.

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