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Satellite · NORAD 38706 · COSPAR 2012-038A

HTV-3 (KOUNOTORI 3)

DecayedPayloadLEOSpace station derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

51.65°

Period

92.8 min

92.8 min

Perigee

399km

Apogee

421km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 14 Sept 2012.· Metadata updated 15 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 14 Sept 2012 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Space station
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
7.6 m²
Constellation membership derived
International Space Station via name_pattern

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • HTV-3 (KOUNOTORI 3)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
NASA
SATCAT owner code
JPN · Japan
Country
Japan JP

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
21 Jul 2012
COSPAR launch id
2012-038
Launch site
Tanegashima Space Center

Objects from the same launch

No other catalogued object is linked to this launch.

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
38706
COSPAR / international designator
2012-038A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTAW1JSQXQGJB0BJE1E
Canonical slug
htv-3-kounotori-3-38706

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