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Satellite · NORAD 40538 · COSPAR 2015-015A

IGS O-5

ActivePayloadOTHERMilitary derived
  • Operator Japan
  • Constellation —
  • Country Japan

Altitude now

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no element set

Velocity

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Inclination

—

Period

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Perigee

—

Apogee

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orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 24 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
Military
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Operational [+]
Radar cross-section
6.1 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • IGS O-5Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
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SATCAT owner code
JPN · Japan
Country
Japan JP

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
26 Mar 2015
COSPAR launch id
2015-015
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.

Quality flags

  • UNKNOWN_OPERATORactive payload without resolved operator11 Sept 2026

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
40538
COSPAR / international designator
2015-015A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JTKF9RXNZ6P4QT2C13S
Canonical slug
igs-o-5-40538

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