Debris object · NORAD 273 · COSPAR 1962-010C
MIDAS 5 DEB
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
86.64°
Period
2.5 h
152.6 min
Perigee
2,768km
Apogee
3,392km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 11 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
- 0.4 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- MIDAS 5 DEBCelestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 09 Apr 1962
- COSPAR launch id
- 1962-010
Objects from the same launch · 7
- MIDAS 5 DEB272DebrisDecayed
- MIDAS 5 DEB274DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 5 DEB4494DebrisDecayed
- MIDAS 5 DEB5703DebrisDecayed
- MIDAS 5 DEB18603DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 5 DEB19981DebrisInactive
- MIDAS 5 (STRONGBACK)271PayloadUnknown
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
- 273
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1962-010C
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JJ9F9BKE6APDHBWKBDA
- Canonical slug
- midas-5-deb-273
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.