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Satellite · NORAD 47955 · COSPAR 2021-022Z

KEPLER-6 (ROCINANTE)

DecayedPayloadLEOScience derived
  • Operator Canada
  • Constellation —
  • Country Canada

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

97.41°

Period

88.5 min

88.5 min

Perigee

193km

Apogee

206km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 02 Nov 2024.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 02 Nov 2024 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Science
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
—

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • KEPLER-6 (ROCINANTE)Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
CA · Canada
Country
Canada CA

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
22 Mar 2021
COSPAR launch id
2021-022
Launch site
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)

Objects from the same launch · 38

All objects from launch 2021-022 →

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

UN Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space (UNOOSA) — connector planned, not yet ingested; registration unavailable

Transparency

Sources & provenance

All sources →

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

All 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
47955
COSPAR / international designator
2021-022Z
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JVNFCBSBJ94FV0X8550
Canonical slug
kepler-6-rocinante-47955

Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Science) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.