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Debris object · NORAD 50801 · COSPAR 2004-049P

HELIOS 2A DEB

DecayedDebrisLEODebris derived
  • Operator France
  • Constellation —
  • Country France

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.01°

Period

90.6 min

90.6 min

Perigee

288km

Apogee

318km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 03 Jul 2022.· Metadata updated 10 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 03 Jul 2022 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Debris
Object type
Debris
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • HELIOS 2A DEBCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
FR · France
Country
France FR

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
18 Dec 2004
COSPAR launch id
2004-049
Launch site
Guiana Space Centre, Kourou

Objects from the same launch · 14

All objects from launch 2004-049 →

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
50801
COSPAR / international designator
2004-049P
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JW0FZGYZX6JAM78RMPC
Canonical slug
helios-2a-deb-50801

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