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Rocket body · NORAD 24656 · COSPAR 1996-064A

MARS 96 R/B

DecayedRocket bodyLEORocket body derived
  • Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
  • Constellation —
  • Country Russia

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

51.50°

Period

86.9 min

86.9 min

Perigee

114km

Apogee

122km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 18 Nov 1996.· Metadata updated 13 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 18 Nov 1996 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
—

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • MARS 96 R/BCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
Country
Russia RU

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
16 Nov 1996
COSPAR launch id
1996-064
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

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
24656
COSPAR / international designator
1996-064A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQ4HG4ZXGXM2K47RAS7
Canonical slug
mars-96-r-b-24656

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.

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