Satellite · NORAD 27642 · COSPAR 2003-002A
ICESAT
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
93.97°
Period
87.2 min
87.2 min
Perigee
129km
Apogee
139km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 30 Aug 2010.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 30 Aug 2010 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Science
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 3.3 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ICESATCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 13 Jan 2003
- COSPAR launch id
- 2003-002
Objects from the same launch · 3
- DELTA 2 DEB [DPAF]27644DebrisDecayed
- CHIPSAT27643PayloadUnknown
- DELTA 2 R/B27645Rocket bodyDecayed
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
Transparency
Sources & provenance
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
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 27642
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2003-002A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQNQFSD4CV7SCX5SMC4
- Canonical slug
- icesat-27642
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Science) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.