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Satellite · NORAD 49470 · COSPAR 2021-106B

GLOBAL-15

DecayedPayloadLEOEarth observation derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

41.97°

Period

88.1 min

88.1 min

Perigee

174km

Apogee

190km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 20 Sept 2024.· Metadata updated 10 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 20 Sept 2024 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Earth observation
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—
Constellation membership derived
BlackSky Global / Gen-3 via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • GLOBAL-15Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
BlackSky
SATCAT owner code
US · United States
Country
United States US

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
18 Nov 2021
COSPAR launch id
2021-106
Launch site
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia

Objects from the same launch · 4

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
49470
COSPAR / international designator
2021-106B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JVSJDXCXJNDXQRE2V36
Canonical slug
global-15-49470

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Earth observation) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.