Satellite · NORAD 16649 · COSPAR 1986-026A
GSTAR 2
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
14.16°
Period
1.0 d
1,442.9 min
Perigee
35,913km
Apogee
35,928km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
- Radar cross-section
- 14.5 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- GSTAR 2Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 28 Mar 1986
- COSPAR launch id
- 1986-026
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 8
- ARIANE 3 DEB [SYLDA]16658DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 3 DEB17253DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB17254DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB24712DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 3 DEB26805DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 3 DEB27025DebrisInactive
- BRASILSAT 216650PayloadUnknown
- ARIANE 3 R/B16657Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 16649
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1986-026A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNRKBPHN5PGCPDS82NR
- Canonical slug
- gstar-2-16649
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.