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Satellite · NORAD 17480 · COSPAR 1987-012A

GINGA (ASTRO-C)

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived
  • Operator Japan
  • Constellation —
  • Country Japan

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

31.08°

Period

87.4 min

87.4 min

Perigee

142km

Apogee

151km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 01 Nov 1991.· Metadata updated 10 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 01 Nov 1991 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Unknown
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
7.7 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • GINGA (ASTRO-C)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
JPN · Japan
Country
Japan JP

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
05 Feb 1987
COSPAR launch id
1987-012
Launch site
Uchinoura Space Center

Objects from the same launch · 9

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
17480
COSPAR / international designator
1987-012A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JNW3451HHBKNAPJ2N9N
Canonical slug
ginga-astro-c-17480

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.