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Satellite · NORAD 51509 · COSPAR 1998-067TG

LIGHT-1

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

51.63°

Period

87.6 min

87.6 min

Perigee

154km

Apogee

157km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 15 Jan 2023.· Metadata updated 8 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 15 Jan 2023 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

  • LIGHT-1Celestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
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SATCAT owner code
UAE · United Arab Emirates
Country
United Arab Emirates AE

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
20 Nov 1998
COSPAR launch id
1998-067
Launch site
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)

Objects from the same launch · 40+

All objects from launch 1998-067 →

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
51509
COSPAR / international designator
1998-067TG
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JW3Q697AGQ9R4V3R76F
Canonical slug
light-1-51509

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.