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Rocket body · NORAD 20317 · COSPAR 1989-070C

HIMAWARI-4 AKM

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

Altitude now

—

no element set

Velocity

—

Inclination

12.52°

Period

1.0 d

1,458.0 min

Perigee

35,195km

Apogee

37,234km

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
0.3 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • HIMAWARI-4 AKMCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
JPN · Japan
Country
Japan JP

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
05 Sept 1989
COSPAR launch id
1989-070
Launch site
Tanegashima Space Center

Objects from the same launch · 2

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
20317
COSPAR / international designator
1989-070C
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JPCDDFH3TJ6S88RTKHH
Canonical slug
himawari-4-akm-20317

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.