Satellite · NORAD 44385 · COSPAR 1998-067QK
IOD-1 GEMS
- Operator United Kingdom
- Constellation —
- Country United Kingdom
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
51.61°
Period
87.4 min
87.4 min
Perigee
142km
Apogee
152km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 03 Apr 2021.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 03 Apr 2021 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- IOD-1 GEMSCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- UK · United Kingdom
- Country
- United Kingdom GB
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 20 Nov 1998
- COSPAR launch id
- 1998-067
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
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- ISS DEB26944DebrisDecayed
- ISS DEB26945DebrisDecayed
- ISS DEB26946DebrisDecayed
- ISS DEB26950DebrisDecayed
- ISS DEB26951DebrisDecayed
- ISS DEB26952DebrisDecayed
- ISS DEB27166DebrisDecayed
- ISS DEB27167DebrisDecayed
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
- 44385
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1998-067QK
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JV59T9CGXY7DXAJFBH5
- Canonical slug
- iod-1-gems-44385
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Unknown) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.