Satellite · NORAD 18960 · COSPAR 1988-021A
IRS-1A
- Operator India
- Constellation —
- Country India
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
98.84°
Period
103.1 min
103.1 min
Perigee
894km
Apogee
914km
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
- Unknown
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 3.5 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- IRS-1ACelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- IND · India
- Country
- India IN
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 17 Mar 1988
- COSPAR launch id
- 1988-021
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 1
- SL-3 R/B18961Rocket 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
- 18960
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1988-021A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JP5YR60YP1V514XEVXX
- Canonical slug
- irs-1a-18960
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.