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Satellite · NORAD 28417 · COSPAR 2004-036A

GSAT-3 (EDUSAT)

UnknownPayloadGEOCommunications derived

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

11.52°

Period

1.0 d

1,450.7 min

Perigee

36,053km

Apogee

36,089km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 19 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
Communications
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Non-operational [-]
Radar cross-section
4.6 m²
Constellation membership derived
GSAT / INSAT via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • GSAT-3 (EDUSAT)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
ISRO
SATCAT owner code
IND · India
Country
India IN

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
20 Sept 2004
COSPAR launch id
2004-036
Launch site
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota

Objects from the same launch · 1

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
28417
COSPAR / international designator
2004-036A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQSMGYQFBJ3986JRY8H
Canonical slug
gsat-3-edusat-28417

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