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Satellite · NORAD 44546 · COSPAR 2019-062A

HTV-8 (KOUNOTORI 8)

DecayedPayloadLEOSpace station derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

51.64°

Period

89.9 min

89.9 min

Perigee

145km

Apogee

399km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 03 Nov 2019.· Metadata updated 8 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 03 Nov 2019 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

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

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • HTV-8 (KOUNOTORI 8)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
NASA
SATCAT owner code
JPN · Japan
Country
Japan JP

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
24 Sept 2019
COSPAR launch id
2019-062
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
44546
COSPAR / international designator
2019-062A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JV6TZ77N70B2NQJ4QS7
Canonical slug
htv-8-kounotori-8-44546

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.