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Satellite · NORAD 24291 · COSPAR 1996-050A

MICROSAT

DecayedPayloadLEOUnknown derived
  • Operator Argentina
  • Constellation —
  • Country Argentina

Altitude now

—

object decayed

Velocity

—

Inclination

62.74°

Period

87.8 min

87.8 min

Perigee

148km

Apogee

180km

orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 12 Nov 1999.· Metadata updated 9 h ago

Live position

Live position

Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 12 Nov 1999 and is no longer tracked.

Mission

Mission & classification

Mission type derived
Unknown
Object type
Payload
SATCAT ops status
Decayed [D]
Radar cross-section
0.4 m²

CelesTrak groups

Not listed in any CelesTrak group.

Aliases

  • MICROSATCelestrak Satcat

Ownership

Operator & country

Operator
—
SATCAT owner code
ARGN · Argentina
Country
Argentina AR

Launch

Launch

Launch page →
Launch date
29 Aug 1996
COSPAR launch id
1996-050
Launch site
Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Objects from the same launch · 5

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
24291
COSPAR / international designator
1996-050A
SatelliteIndex id
sat_01M28X3JQ2NJMSV139MAE1H53J
Canonical slug
microsat-24291

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.