Satellite · NORAD 15875 · COSPAR 1985-056A
GIOTTO
- Operator European Space Agency
- Constellation —
- Country —
Altitude now
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no element set
Velocity
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Inclination
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Period
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Perigee
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Apogee
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orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 13 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
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- GIOTTOCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- SATCAT owner code
- ESA · European Space Agency
- Country
- —
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 02 Jul 1985
- COSPAR launch id
- 1985-056
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 14
- ARIANE 1 DEB17255DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB17325DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB17332DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 1 DEB19857DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB19951DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB25497DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 1 DEB25498DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 1 DEB26683DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB26684DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB26685DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 1 DEB26686DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 1 DEB26787DebrisInactive
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
- 15875
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1985-056A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNMNGZEMQFW8S6D3RKS
- Canonical slug
- giotto-15875
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.