Satellite · NORAD 21055 · COSPAR 1991-003A
ITALSAT 1
- Operator Italy
- Constellation —
- Country Italy
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
14.53°
Period
1.0 d
1,440.5 min
Perigee
35,831km
Apogee
35,912km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 14 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
- Radar cross-section
- 3.4 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- ITALSAT 1Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- IT · Italy
- Country
- Italy IT
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 15 Jan 1991
- COSPAR launch id
- 1991-003
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
Objects from the same launch · 18
- ARIANE 44L DEB [SPELDA]21058DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 44L DEB24722DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44L DEB24723DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44L DEB24724DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44L DEB24741DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44L DEB24750DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 44L DEB24751DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44L DEB25726DebrisDecayed
- ARIANE 44L DEB28039DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44L DEB28573DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44L DEB28574DebrisInactive
- ARIANE 44L DEB29024DebrisInactive
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
- 21055
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1991-003A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JPGQQFZBRF1ZDZ0BC7J
- Canonical slug
- italsat-1-21055
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.