Satellite · NORAD 20608 · COSPAR 1990-043B
MACSAT 2 (M 2)
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
89.75°
Period
97.2 min
97.2 min
Perigee
571km
Apogee
682km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 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
- 0.5 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MACSAT 2 (M 2)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 09 May 1990
- COSPAR launch id
- 1990-043
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- SCOUT G-1 DEB20613DebrisDecayed
- SCOUT G-1 DEB20614DebrisDecayed
- SCOUT G-1 DEB20634DebrisDecayed
- SCOUT G-1 DEB20651DebrisDecayed
- SCOUT G-1 DEB20759DebrisDecayed
- MACSAT 1 (M 1)20607PayloadUnknown
- SCOUT G-1 R/B20609Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 20608
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1990-043B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JPEH6NW3VTACEV6MZWZ
- Canonical slug
- macsat-2-m-2-20608
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.