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Rocket body · NORAD 59985 · COSPAR 1977-065GQ

HIMAWARI 1 AKM

InactiveRocket bodyGEORocket body derived
  • Operator Japan
  • Constellation —
  • Country Japan

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

3.99°

Period

23.7 h

1,424.0 min

Perigee

34,394km

Apogee

36,703km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 11 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
—

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • HIMAWARI 1 AKMCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
JPN · Japan
Country
Japan JP

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
14 Jul 1977
COSPAR launch id
1977-065
Launch site
Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 1977-065 →

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
59985
COSPAR / international designator
1977-065GQ
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JWPDA83J8N5TF0WBG2H
Canonical slug
himawari-1-akm-59985

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.