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Rocket body · NORAD 29480 · COSPAR 2006-041B

M-5 R/B

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived
  • Operator Japan
  • Constellation —
  • Country Japan

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

98.24°

Period

87.3 min

87.3 min

Perigee

132km

Apogee

145km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 20 Oct 2009.· Metadata updated 14 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 20 Oct 2009 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Rocket body
Object type
Rocket body
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
7.9 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • M-5 R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
JPN · Japan
Country
Japan JP

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
22 Sept 2006
COSPAR launch id
2006-041
Launch site
Uchinoura Space Center

Objects from the same launch · 10

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
29480
COSPAR / international designator
2006-041B
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQZXWENWV0EEATTWTS7
Canonical slug
m-5-r-b-29480

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