Debris object · NORAD 42664 · COSPAR 1961-028K
MIDAS 4 DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
95.84°
Period
2.8 h
165.7 min
Perigee
3,258km
Apogee
3,972km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 26 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
- Debris
- Object type
- Debris
- Radar cross-section
- 0.2 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MIDAS 4 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 21 Oct 1961
- COSPAR launch id
- 1961-028
Objects from the same launch · 12
- MIDAS 4 DEB [NOSECONE]193DebrisDecayed
- MIDAS 4 DEB194DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4 DEB195DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4 DEB2009DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4 DEB2371DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4 DEB23933DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4 DEB27478DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4 DEB29255DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4 DEB42665DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4 DEB45467DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4 DEB45468DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 4192PayloadUnknown
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
- 42664
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1961-028K
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JTXXCKCTPCR0KH52CMY
- Canonical slug
- midas-4-deb-42664
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Debris) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.