Satellite · NORAD 9931 · COSPAR 1977-029A
GEOS-1
- Operator European Space Agency
- Constellation —
- Country —
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
27.63°
Period
12.2 h
734.0 min
Perigee
2,772km
Apogee
38,382km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 10 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
- 4.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- GEOS-1Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- SATCAT owner code
- ESA · European Space Agency
- Country
- —
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 20 Apr 1977
- COSPAR launch id
- 1977-029
Objects from the same launch · 3
- DELTA 1 DEB9934DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B(1)9932Rocket bodyDecayed
- DELTA 1 R/B(2)9933Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 9931
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1977-029A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JMKTKSYTVQCE0DRMSR7
- Canonical slug
- geos-1-9931
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.