Rocket body · NORAD 29657 · COSPAR 2006-059B
H-2A R/B
- Operator Japan
- Constellation —
- Country Japan
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
28.60°
Period
3.5 h
210.8 min
Perigee
246km
Apogee
10,464km
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
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- Radar cross-section
- 23.8 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- H-2A R/BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- JPN · Japan
- Country
- Japan JP
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 18 Dec 2006
- COSPAR launch id
- 2006-059
- Launch site
- Tanegashima Space Center
Objects from the same launch · 1
- KIKU-8 (ETS-VIII)29656PayloadUnknown
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
- 29657
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2006-059B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQZXWENWV0EEATTWTYF
- Canonical slug
- h-2a-r-b-29657
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Rocket body) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.