Satellite · NORAD 24945 · COSPAR 1997-051B
IRIDIUM 32
- Operator Iridium Communications
- Constellation Iridium NEXT
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
86.35°
Period
87.6 min
87.6 min
Perigee
121km
Apogee
187km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 10 Mar 2019.· Metadata updated 17 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 10 Mar 2019 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- 3.2 m²
- Constellation membership derived
- Iridium NEXT via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- IRIDIUM 32Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- Iridium Communications
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 14 Sept 1997
- COSPAR launch id
- 1997-051
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 40+
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33771DebrisDecayed
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33772DebrisDecayed
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33773DebrisInactive
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33774DebrisDecayed
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33775DebrisInactive
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33776DebrisInactive
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33777DebrisInactive
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33778DebrisDecayed
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33849DebrisDecayed
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33850DebrisInactive
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33851DebrisDecayed
- IRIDIUM 33 DEB33852DebrisDecayed
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
- 24945
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1997-051B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ6NS62CZBE2442YF57
- Canonical slug
- iridium-32-24945
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.