Satellite · NORAD 26108 · COSPAR 2000-016B
INSAT-3B
- Operator ISRO
- Constellation GSAT / INSAT
- Country India
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
11.03°
Period
1.0 d
1,444.9 min
Perigee
35,927km
Apogee
35,990km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 9 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
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 5.0 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- GSAT / INSAT via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- INSAT-3BCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 21 Mar 2000
- COSPAR launch id
- 2000-016
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 3
- ARIANE 5 DEB [SYLDA]26109DebrisInactive
- ASIASTAR26107PayloadActive
- ARIANE 5 R/B26110Rocket bodyInactive
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
- 26108
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2000-016B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQCSQBKJKC74AFCCQEN
- Canonical slug
- insat-3b-26108
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.