Rocket body · NORAD 16598 · COSPAR 1986-016B
N-2 R/B(1)
- Operator Japan
- Constellation —
- Country Japan
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
29.89°
Period
87.5 min
87.5 min
Perigee
132km
Apogee
169km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 19 Apr 1987.· Metadata updated 14 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 19 Apr 1987 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
- 26.4 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- N-2 R/B(1)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- JPN · Japan
- Country
- Japan JP
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 12 Feb 1986
- COSPAR launch id
- 1986-016
- Launch site
- Tanegashima Space Center
Objects from the same launch · 3
- N-2 DEB16601DebrisDecayed
- YURI-2B (BS-2B)16597PayloadUnknown
- N-2 R/B(2)16600Rocket 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
- 16598
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1986-016B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JNRKBPHN5PGCPDS82M5
- Canonical slug
- n-2-r-b-1-16598
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.