Satellite · NORAD 21 · COSPAR 1959-008A
LUNA 3
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
55.00°
Period
15.0 d
21,563.2 min
Perigee
500km
Apogee
499,998km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 20 Apr 1960.· Metadata updated 19 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 20 Apr 1960 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
- LUNA 3Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 04 Oct 1959
- COSPAR launch id
- 1959-008
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch
No other catalogued object is linked to this launch.
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
- 21
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1959-008A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJ7DNSEQTJSZYKSDRDG
- Canonical slug
- luna-3-21
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.